Objecting

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Object \Ob*ject"\ ([o^]b*j[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Objected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Objecting}.] [L. objectus, p. p.
     of objicere, obicere, to throw or put before, to oppose; ob
     (see {Ob-}) + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See {Jet} a
     shooting forth.]
     1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to


        oppose. [Obs.]
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              Of less account some knight thereto object,
              Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.
                                                    --Fairfax.
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              Some strong impediment or other objecting itself.
                                                    --Hooker.
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              Pallas to their eyes
              The mist objected, and condensed the skies. --Pope.
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     2. To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of
        accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or
        adverse reason.
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              He gave to him to object his heinous crime.
                                                    --Spencer.
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              Others object the poverty of the nation. --Addison.
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              The book . . . giveth liberty to object any crime
              against such as are to be ordered.    --Whitgift.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "objecting":
     complaining, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting,
     expostulative, expostulatory, fractious, noncooperative,
     obstructive, on the barricades, proof against, protestant,
     protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant,
     remonstrant, remonstrative, renitent, repellent, resistant,
     resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, uncooperative,
     under protest, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms,
     withstanding