berate

t. [Eng. prefix be, and rate.] 1. With a person for the object: To rate much, to scold. he fell into a furious fit of choler and all-to berated the foresaid To rani us."-Holland: Plinie, bk. viii., ch. 12, 2. With a thing for the object: "So is the veritie of the gospell berated and laughed to skorne of the miscreantes."-Udall: Mark, ch. xv. bě-rā-těd, pa. par. & a. [BERATE.] bě-rā't-ing, pr. par. [BERATE.]