rebukable, rebuke able

[English rebuk (e); -able.] Fit or deserving to be rebuked; reprehensible, disgraceful. " Rebukable And worthy shameful check it were." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 4. rě-būke', v . t . [O. Fr. rebouquer (Fr. reboucher ) =to dull, to blunt, from Lat.re-=back, and bucca = the cheek.] 1. To check with reproof; to chide; to reprimand sharply; to reprove. " Rebuke me not for that which you provoke." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, v. 2. 2. To check. to restrain, to quell. "To rebuke the usurpation of thy uncle." Shakesp.: King John, ii. *3. To buffet, to beat down, to thrash, to bruise. ( Beaumont & Fletcher .) 4. To chastise, to punish. rě-būke', s. [REBUKE, v.] 1. The act of rebuking; a reproof or reprimand; a severe or direct reprimand; reprehension. "One rebuke is not sufficient."- P . Holland: Pliny , bk.. xxxvii., ch. iii. *2. A counter-blow; a blow in return. "He gave him so terrible a rebuke upon the forehead with his heel, that he laid him at his length." -L'Estrange: Fables. 3. Check, restraint, chastisement, punishment. " Rebuke and dread correction wait on us." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . I., v. i. *rě-büke-fül, *re-buk-ful, adj . [Eng. rebuke , -ful(l).] Containing rebuke; full of rebukes. "The rebukful miserie of our mortal i tee."- Udall . John i. *rě-büke-fül-lỹ, adv . [English rebukeful ; -ly.] In a rebukeful manner; with rebuke or reprehension. "Leste parauenture he wyl gyue to the a feyned thanke, and after reporte rebukefully of the."- Sir T. Elyot : The Govern our, bk. iii., ch. xxvii.