verb

• (intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
  "Sir Walter has been duly animadverted on for this dangerous error by the erudite Mr. Todd."
• (intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
  "[…] I am daily advertiſed by ſeveral friends and correſpondents from Oxford, that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret Hiſtory of that place; and I have therefore, in compliance with their requeſt, reſolved to reſume this work, and continue to publiſh ſome part of it every Act-Term, till the whole is finiſhed, and the ſubject fully exhauſted: […]"
• (intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
  "The learned judge animadverted with great severity upon the behaviour of Mr. Young, the cabin passenger, who went out on board the vessel as agent and supercargo, to protect the interests of the shippers, and who, on the outward voyage, conducted himself with great impropriety towards the master; […]"