All 8 Uses of
chide
in
As You Like It
- Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,— The seasons' difference: as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.'†
Scene 2.1
- Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin; For thou thyself hast been a libertine, As sensual as the brutish sting itself; And all the embossed sores and headed evils That thou with license of free foot hast caught Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.†
Scene 2.6
- I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.†
Scene 3.2
- I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
Scene 3.5 *chide = criticize
- Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together: I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.†
Scene 3.5
- There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him In parcels as I did, would have gone near To fall in love with him: but, for my part, I love him not, nor hate him not; and yet I have more cause to hate him than to love him: For what had he to do to chide at me?†
Scene 3.5
- Farewell, monsieur traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits; disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.†
Scene 4.1
- Call you this chiding?†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
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(chide) to tell someone they have done wrong -- sometimes in a gentle way to encourage better behavior