English Dictionary

animadvert

/ˌænɪmədˈvɜːt/

verb

(intransitive) To criticise, to censure. / (intransitive, obsolete) To consider. / (intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.

I animadvert on the flaws in his argument.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.

Her of course at Beale Farange's had never meant any one but Ida, and there was the difference in this case that it now meant Ida with renewed intensity. Mrs. Beale was in a position strikingly to animadvert more and more upon her dreadfulness, the moral of all which appeared to be how abominably yet blessedly little she had to do with her husband.

意味（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 continue to publiſh ſome part of it every Act-Term, till the whole is finiſhed, and the ſubject fully exhauſted: […]

意味（3）

(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.

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 Court, OCLC 889950828, page 269: