objurgate

He found various relishes, condiments, and preserves, and what not, all of which he tasted, some of which he enjoyed, and some of which he seemed to objurgate in choice Kickapoo.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various

If you step on one after nightfall, it will be useless to objurgate.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It is customary to objurgate Thackeray as too moral.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

It has at last come home to the mind of that impetuous and much objurgated dog, Shark, that his destiny in life is to be a boar-hound.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

Felipe, accompanying each outburst with a mighty swing of his whip, swore and pleaded and objurgated and threatened in turn.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton

I was so filled with anger when I read this note that I openly objurgated "His Wife's Deceased Sister."

From The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

See "Dramatic Idyls", "Pan and Luna" * * * Solomon has objurgated the invincibly garrulous woman.

From Hints for Lovers by T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain

He objurgated his clumsiness and went on, picking his way more cautiously.

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

In another case a woman rushed into the street, alternately objurgating and pleading with the spirits, who, she said, were vexing her child which had convulsions. 

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

The sailor-man, who had been objurgating straight ahead all this time, now weighed anchor and put the boat in towards shore.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various

Then when he felt himself in the right mood, he feverishly improvized the play, laughing over the jokes, weeping over the pathetic moments and objurgating the evil deeds of the more despicable characters.

From How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola by Brander Matthews

Inwardly objurgating the spying Melinda, but relieved that his playmates hadn't broken their promise of secrecy, Mr. Hamlin laughed.

From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

In another case I saw a woman who rushed into the street objurgating the spirits, and in the next breath humbly supplicating them, who, she said, were vexing her child that was lying in convulsions.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau