animadvertor

English

Noun

animadvertor (plural animadvertors)

1. One who animadverts.
   • 1659, Thomas Fuller, “Why the Author desired and hoped never to come under the Pen of the Animadvertor in a Controversal Difference”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: unto the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie Betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas Fuller., London: […] W. Godbid, […], part I, page 2:

     IT was ever my Deſire and Care, if it were poſſible, not to fall under the Pen of the Animadvertor; […].

   • 1857, Donald McLeod, Donald McLeod’s Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland: Versus Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Sunny Memories in (England) a Foreign Land: or a Faithful Picture of the Extirpation of the Celtic Race from the Highlands of Scotland, Toronto: […] the Author, by Thompson & Co., […], page 211:

     While I hold myself ready to substantiate every charge I have made against Highland depopulating proprietors, be it known that I will pay no attention to anonymous animadvertors; I must know my man.

   • 1996, Joad Raymond, “Paper Bullets: Newsbooks, Pamphlets, and Print Culture”, in The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641–1649, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 223:

     Cleveland’s animadvertors took the blazon seriously, sacrificing humour to analysis and thus losing the debate: […].

Latin

Verb

animadvertor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of animadvertō