Animadvert: to criticize openly and harshly; to censure; to notice or observe; to turn the mind to; to consider; to make an animadversion
Animadvert comes from the Latin word Animadvertere, which means “to notice,” and itself comes from three separate Latin words, anima meaning “mind,” ad meaning “to”, and vertere meaning “to turn”. So, together it means “to turn the mind towards”. Originally this word in English carried a similar meaning of “to notice” or “to consider”, but that meaning fell away, when the newer meaning of criticism or censure replaced it. Now, the word as a whole is mostly obsolete.
“The lawyer animadverted on the legality of the case.”
“Cicero famously animadverted against his many opponents.”