Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Inveigh"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Inveigh \In*veigh"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Inveighed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Inveighing}.] [L. invehere, invectum, to carry or
bring into or against, to attack with words, to inveigh;
pref. in- in + vehere to carry. See {Vehicle}, and cf.
{Invective}.]
To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter
censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh
criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use
invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against
character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an
abuse.

All men inveighed against him; all men, except court
vassals, opposed him. --Milton.

The artificial life against which we inveighed.
--Hawthorne.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

inveigh
v : complain bitterly [syn: {rail}]


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