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The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.

Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv.

Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

asure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.

Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.