animadverting

Verb

animadvert (third-person singular simple present animadverts, present participle animadverting, simple past and past participle animadverted)

1. (intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
   • Sir Walter has been duly animadverted on for this dangerous error by the erudite Mr. Todd.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 58
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
   • […] I am daily advertiſed by ſeveral friends and correſpondents from Oxford, that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret Hiſtory of that place; and I have therefore, in compliance with their requeſt, reſolved to reſume this work, and...1726, Terræ Filius [pseudonym; Nicholas Amherst], “[The Dedication]”, in Terræ-Filius: Or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford; in Several Essays. To which are Added, Remarks upon a Late...
3. (archaic, intransitive) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
   • The learned judge animadverted with great severity upon the behaviour of Mr. Young, the cabin passenger, who went out on board the vessel as agent and supercargo, to protect the interests of the shippers, and who, on the outward voyage, conducted himself with great impropriety towards the master...1837, “Law Proceedings”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1837. A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall...