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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Upbraid

Up·braid′ (ŭp·brād′), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Upbraided; p. pr. & vb. n. Upbraiding.] [OE. upbreiden; AS. upp up + bregdan to draw, twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregða to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid. See Up, and Braid, v. t.]

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; — followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.

And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14.

Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. Shak.

2. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.

Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20

How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! Sir P. Sidney.

3. To treat with contempt. [Obs.] Spenser.

4. To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; — with to before the person. [Obs.] Bacon.

Syn. — To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.

Up·braid′, v. i. To utter upbraidings. Pope.

Up·braid′, n. The act of reproaching; contumely. [Obs.] " Foul upbraid." Spenser.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.