0 past simple and past participle of reprimand
1 to express to someone your strong official disapproval of them:
In 1640 the council reprimanded serving-girls who had been wearing items reserved for the children of distinguished parents, such as pearls and decorated shoes.
The pregnant woman herself was to be reprimanded for the first offence and fined up to 300 roubles for a second offence.
When he acted contrary to virtue, it was believed that heaven reprimanded him with a calamity.
Rexism was a haven for all malcontents, a catch-all party, a hotch-potch where everyone looked after himself without being reprimanded by the landlord.
If they themselves did not enforce it correctly they would be subject to appeals and might themselves be reprimanded.
Monthly meetings were to be held where virtuous conduct was recorded and rewarded, and recidivists admonished and reprimanded by the head of the compact.
Alberti has also been reprimanded for attempting to perpetuate classicomedieval symbolic codes of colour, such as the association of primary colours with the elements.
For this, he is severely reprimanded.
