reprehendo

re-prehendō

(reprēndō, O., H.), endī, ēnsus, ere, to hold back, hold fast, take hold of, seize, catch: quosdam manu, L.: alqm elapsum semel, Ph.: reprehensi ex fugā Persae, Cu.: Membra reprensa, caught fast, O.—Fig., to hold fast, take hold of, restrain, check, recover: revocat virtus, vel potius reprehendit manu: cursūs vestros, Pr.: locus Reprensus, qui praeteritus neglegentiāst, taken up anew, T.: quod erat praetermissum, id reprehendisti.—To blame, censure, find fault with, reprove, rebuke, reprehend: reprehendendi potestas: quis erit tam iniquus, qui reprehendat?: dare sibi tamquam ansas ad reprehendendum: Haec, T.: alios reprehendissent: si quos (aculeos) habuisti in me reprehendendo: meum discessum: nihil haberem quod reprehenderem, si, etc.: ea res omnium iudicio reprehendebatur, Cs.: adrogantiam, Cs.: delicta, S.: maior reprensis, superior to correction, H.: id in me, quod Metello laudi datum est: nihil in Homero, H.—In law, to prosecute, conviet, condemn judicially: multa, quae nemo possit reprehendere: neque id ullo modo senatoriis iudiciis reprehendi posse.—In rhet., to refute: expone nunc de reprehendendo: omnis argumentatio reprehenditur, si, etc.