bechide

Verb

bechide (third-person singular simple present bechides, present participle bechiding, simple past bechid or bechided or bechode, past participle bechid or bechided or bechode or bechidden)

1. (archaic, transitive) to chide or scold completely; reprimand thoroughly
   • Should I bechide "It's God's own way
     Permitting night to follow day?"1920, Ira Edmund Stanford, There is No Night and Other Verse
   • Exeunting myself to those higher latitudes would, I felt, vault to the fore my more shining aspects, and soon enough (ran my hopes), the Easts, heartily discussing my prospects in some room of constant gleam, would decide, thereunto, to promote me, to the house, and instantly my suffering, which...2017, George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo