reprehensio

rĕprĕhensĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a holding back, trop.

* I.

A checking, check, in speaking:

(orationem) concinnam... festivam, sine intermissione, sine reprehensione, sine varietate,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 100.—

II.

Blame, censure, reprimand, reproof, reprehension (freq. and class.).

(α).

With gen.:

gloriam in morte debent ii, qui in re publicā versantur, non culpae reprehensionem et stultitiae vituperationem relinquere,

Cic. Phil. 12, 10, 25:

vitae,

id. Mur. 5, 11: temeritatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 1:

brevis neglegentiae,

Quint. 5, 13, 10:

personarum,

id. 9, 2, 68:

vereri reprehensionem doctorum atque prudentium,

Cic. Or. 1, 1.— In plur.:

obscuritatis, infantiae, inscitiae rerum verborumque, et insulsitatis etiam,

Quint. 5, 13, 38; cf.:

dissentientium inter se reprehensiones non sunt vituperandae,

Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 27.—

(β).

Absol.:

reprehensionem non fugere,

Cic. Att. 10, 3, a, 1:

justā reprehensione carere,

id. Off. 1, 40, 144:

sine reprehensione,

Quint. 1, 5, 14; 1, 11, 18; 9, 2, 68; Plin. 3, 1, praef. § 1; Tac. H. 1, 49:

citra reprehensionem,

Quint. 1, 5, 64; 8, 5, 34:

cum reprehensione,

id. 11, 3, 165:

reprehensionem capere,

to be found fault with, id. 5, 7, 1.— In plur.:

fore ut hic noster labor in varias reprehensiones incurreret,

Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 1.—

B.

Transf.

1.

Like our blame for the thing blamed, a fault:

Hermagoras, in plurimis admirandus, tantum diligentiae nimium solicitae, ut ipsa ejus reprehensio laude aliquā non indigna sit,

Quint. 3, 11, 22; cf.: usque ad emacitatis reprehensionem. Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 7.—

2.

Rhet. t. t., a refutation, Cic. Inv. 1, 42, 78; id. Part. Or. 12, 44; id. de Or. 3, 54, 207; Quint. 9, 1, 34 (cf. reprehendo, II. B. 2.).