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isgrace. [Obs.] I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life. Shak.

Deserving reproach; censurable.

One who reproaches.

Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak.

Being without reproach.

Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. He [Berkely] erred, -- and who is free from error -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie.

The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.

In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.

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.

, 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.

measure 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 impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.