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animadverter|ˌænɪmədˈvɜːtə(r)|
[f. animadvert v. + -er1.]
1. One who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder, unfavourable critic or commentator.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 267 Therefore the Animadverter haunts Playhouses and Bordelloes. 1714Nelson Script. Doctr. Trin. Pref. 11, I was thus invited by your and my animadverter..to defend Bishop Bull and myself. 1768Blackstone Comm. Pref., Such of these animadverters as have fallen within the author's notice. 1792Scott Let. 10 Sept. (1932) I. 21 He will have many advisers and animadverters upon the naughtiness of his ways. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 322/3 The most censorious Republican (or Democratic) animadverter on the ‘mess in Washington’.
†2. An inflicter of chastisement, a chastiser. Obs.
a1716South Serm. VIII. 279 God is..a severe animadverter upon such as presume to partake of those mysteries, without such a preparation. |