objurgate (OB-juhr-gayt) verb tr.
To scold or rebuke sharply; berate.
[Latin obiurgare, obiurgat- : ob-, against + iurgare, to scold,
sue at law :,
probably ius, iur-, law; + agere, to do, proceed.]
"The act about to be objurgated here calls on the Food and
Drug
Administration to oversee a broad revision of food labeling."
Daniel Seligman, Patty de Llosa, Federal Food Follies,
Fortune, 1 Jul 1991.
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