chide

present singular third person chides · participle present chiding · past chid · past chided · past chode · participle past chid · participle past chided · participle past chode · participle past chidden

1. literarytransitiveTo admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

   Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!

   c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 4, scene 3

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   Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

   c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, scene 1

   I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

   I know, [she talks] too much: / I find that, when I have desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And '''scolds''' me with her thoughts.

   c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 24

   Yet didn't you ſee, yet didn't you ſee, What naughty tricks they put upon me: They broke my pitcher, And ſpilt the water, And huff'd my mother, And chid her daughter, And kiſs'd my ſiſter inſtead of me.

   1795, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus, Stockton: R. Christopher, page 27

   Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.

   1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008

2. intransitiveobsoleteTo utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

   And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

   1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 31:36

3. ambitransitiveobsoleteTo make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

   Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?

   c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1

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   […] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.

   c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 3, scene 2