reprehendern.

1537 tr. Erasmus Expos. xv. Psalme sig. G.iii He is blessydly broughte to nought whiche of an euyll speaker is made a good speaker, of a reprehender or rebuker [L. vituperatore] a prayser or commender.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. sig. Aviii^v Let it not moue the,..if any cankered reprehendour of other mens doynges shal saie vnto the [L. quod a rigidiore censore mihi objici] [etc.].

1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie ii. vi. 370 Therefore fell they in fine, to persecute sharply their reprehendors.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. §viii. 114 He was a severe reprehender of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Lactantius in tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits To Rdr. p. xxii Let him Read Seneca; the most lively Describer of Publick Vices..and the smartest Reprehender of them.

1705 J. Edwards Preacher 106 He is as impartial a Reprehender of the Ignorance, Pride, Covetousness, Ambition, Luxury, and such like Disorders of some of the Bishops.

1784 C. Brown Itinerarium Novi Testamenti 18/2 To what may we compare him, that is a great Reprehender of others, and never looks into his own Infirmities?

1830 Morning Watch 2 949 That the Macdonalds and their friends are humble, holy, devoted Christians, their very reprehenders are constrained to allow.

1872 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 69 Among the most strenuous reprehenders of Wilkes's libertinism was the Earl of March.