The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
To criticize harshly.
To formally rebuke.
A berating or scolding.
a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1)
A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.