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

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

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

I was so filled with anger when I read this note that I openly objurgated “His Wife’s Deceased Sister.”

From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

Gerald, thus objurgated, walked through into a large room, low-ceilinged as are all rooms situated on the entresol floor of a Paris house.

From The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

This was repeated to Ahchoogah, who turned and objurgated his people with every appearance of anger.

From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Hulbert Footner

Occasionally he objurgated Mr. Ledbetter's clumsiness, and urged him to hurry, and several times he appealed to Mr. Ledbetter's watch for information.

From Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Then he relieved his feelings by objurgating the panic-stricken Somalis, whose superstitious minds interpreted the appearance of the air-borne host as a sure indication of war.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

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

He was thinking of those two dear women, as he called them to himself, objurgating himself for his unworthiness to be the kinsman and lover of one, the friend of the other.

From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan

At first the latter involuntarily turned away; but, objurgating such cowardice, he forced himself to gaze at Allen.

From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer