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opprobriate, v.|əˈprəʊbrɪeɪt|
[f. med.L. opprobriāt-, ppl. stem of opprobriāre, f. L. opprobrium: see opprobrium.]
trans. To cover with opprobrium; to speak abusively or contemptuously of or to. Hence oˈpprobriated ppl. a.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II, cccxlvi, What they writt Hee Read T' opprobriate himselfe. 1840Tait's Mag. VII. 167 [They] would never dream of thus opprobriating the great names stamped current by the universal voice. 1842Ibid. IX. 563 Known only by his ill repute in the world,—under the opprobriated name of A.O. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 42 She will probably come in time to be opprobriated as a coquette. |