2. To relieve for a time, or temporarily. Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience. South.
REPRIEVE
Re*prieve" (r-prv"), n.
1. A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death. The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days. Clarendon.
2. Interval of ease or relief; respite. All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve. Denham.
REPRIMAND Rep"ri*mand (rp"r-mnd), n. Etym: [F. réprimande, fr. L. reprimendus, reprimenda, that is to be checked or suppressed, fr. reprimere to check, repress; pref. re- re + premere to press. See Press, and cf. Repress.]
Defn: Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.
REPRIMAND
Rep"ri*mand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprimanded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Reprimanding.] Etym: [Cf. F. réprimander. See Reprimand, n.]
1. To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to
consure formally.
Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into
Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.
2. To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.
Syn.
— To reprove; reprehend; chide; rebuke; censure; blame. See
Reprove.