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Reprimand, a formal and public stigmatization of an offence addressed by a judge to a convicted offender, or by an official superior to an inferior, generally in substitution for any other punishment: see, e.g., that enjoined for the first offence against the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 (see BIRDS), in the case of a sparrow or other not scheduled bird, and that enjoined in the case of officers convicted by Court-martial, which may be either 'reprimand,' or 'severe reprimand,' by s. 44 (g) of the Army Act.

Reprimand, in British Parliament, when either of the House orders a person (other than a Member) to be reprimanded the Speaker, if the person is in attendance in the lobby, directs the Serjeant-at-Arms to bring him to the bar to reprimand that person. If a person, who is to be reprimanded, is not in attendance, the House orders the Serjeant-at-Arms to take him into custody and bring him to the bar on a certain day to be reprimanded, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 175.

Means a severe or formal rebuke, especially by a person in authority, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1235.