animadvert

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There is no need to animadvert to the deeds of that day, which shall resound, for weal or woe, as long as this terrestrial globe has habitation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

I have heard others’ stories and recorded them in these pages; there is no need to animadvert to my own.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In conclusion, let me animadvert upon the injustice with which, to its own loss, society has treated mesmerism.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

I disdained to animadvert on these defects, naturally supposing that his house could furnish no better.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

But what occasion is there to animadvert on the opinions of individuals, when we may observe whole nations to fall into all sorts of errors?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke