Definitions for animadvert

animadvert an·i·mad·vert

Spelling: [an-uh-mad-vurt]
IPA: /ˌæn ə mædˈvɜrt/

Animadvert is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 869 anagrams from letters in animadvert (aadeimnrtv).

Definitions for animadvert

verb (used without object)

  1. to comment unfavorably or critically (usually followed by on or upon):

verb (used with object)

  1. Obsolete. to take cognizance or notice of.

Origin of animadvert

1630-40; Latin animadvertere to heed, censure, equivalent to anim(um), accusative of animus (see animus) + advertere to advert1

Examples for animadvert

I shall not take upon me to animadvert upon this; but certain it is, that Johnson paid great attention to Taylor.

It is not our business to animadvert upon these lines; we are not critics, but historians.

I find nothing upon which to animadvert till the re-entry of the ghost.

I presumed to animadvert on his eulogy on Garrick, in his Lives of the Poets.

In conclusion, let me animadvert upon the injustice with which, to its own loss, society has treated mesmerism.

It would take up too much time to animadvert upon all the rest of your male and female characters.

If the stage becomes a nursery of folly and impertinence, I shall not be afraid to animadvert upon it.

Nay, what, after all, are the so heinous faults upon which you animadvert?

What, then, do British writers mean when they animadvert upon "American spelling?"

The confusion of Imogen did not allow her to animadvert upon his freedoms.

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