Definition of "objurgate"
verb
third-person singular simple present objurgates, present participle objurgating, simple past and past participle objurgated
(transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.
Quotations
Mulcachy was disgusted. “Listen to reason, won’t you?” he objurgated, as, this time, the reason he referred to was the introduction of the ring clear through both nostrils, higher up, and through the central dividing wall of cartilage.
1917, Jack London, chapter XXXIII, in Michael, Brother of Jerry