bechide

present singular third person bechides · participle present bechiding · past bechid · past bechided · past bechode · participle past bechid · participle past bechided · participle past bechode · participle past bechidden

1. archaictransitiveto chide or scold completely; reprimand thoroughly

   Should I bechide "It's God's own way Permitting night to follow day?"

   1920, Ira Edmund Stanford, There is No Night and Other Verse

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   Exeunting myself to those higher latitudes would, I felt, vault to the fore my more shining aspects, and soon enough (ran my hopes), the Easts, heartily discussing my prospects in some room of constant gleam, would decide, thereunto, to promote me, to the house, and instantly my suffering, which had gauged, gnarred, and vexed, bechiding with sooth my loftish sensitivities, would be converted, and, gladsome shouting amidway, I would obtain that life which, more tender […]

   2017, George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo