Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UP-BRAID'
UP-BRAID', v.t. [Sax. upgebredan, to reproach; gebrædan, to roast, to dilate or extend, to draw, as a sword; bredan, to braid; Dan. bebrejder, to upbraid.]
- To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance. Yet do not Upbraid us with our distress. Shak. He upbraided them with their unbelief. Matth. xvi. [The use of to and of, after upbraid, – as, to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, – has been long discontinued.]
- To reproach; to chide. God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James i.
- To reprove with severity. Thcn he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matth. xi.
- To bring reproach on. Addison. How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! Sidney.
- To treat with contempt. [Obs.] Spenser.
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