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VILIORATE.
+ b. To make morally vile ; to degrade ; also,
to defile or dirty. Ol>s.
i6is J.
Tavi.or (Water P.) Taylor's Rev. Wks. (1630) ir.
146 I Such Mijtiey, Medley, Linsey-Woolsey speeches
Would sure haue made thee vilifie thy breeches. 1619 H.
HuTTON Follic's Anat. (Percy Soc.) ig You vilific your
selfe with endlesse shame, Imposing scandall to each poet's
name. 1667 Mii.ton P.L. xi. 513 Thir Makers Image.,
then Forsook them, when themselves they villifi'd To serve
ungovern'd appetite. 1684 Contein/>i. St. Matt i. iv. (1699)
38 Altho' the hoiil be of it self of a most Noble Substance,
yet his Vices do so much vilifie it, that he makei^ it more
abominable than the Body. 1781 (see Vilifying/'//, a.].
ai/soi. 1749 Chesterf. J.ett. (1774) 1. 440 Nothing vilifies
and degrades more than pride.
+ c. To bring disgrace or dishonour upon. Obs.
1651 Baxter Inf. Bapt. 1^9 The Anabaptists, .resisting
the most painfull godly Ministers, and reproaching and
vilifying them, by their wicked lives. 1656 Earl Monm. ir.
Bo€calinrs Advts./r, Parnass. i. Ixxx vii. (1674) 117 [They]
blxish to think tliat their Ancestors have so shamefully
vilified their house. 1674 tr. Scheffer's Lapland ix. 34
Their Priests, who either take no care of instructing the
people, or vilify their doctrine by the sordidness of their
lives. 1749 Smollett Regicide u. x, Heav'n shall not see
A deed so abject vilify my name.
2. fa. To depreciate or disparage in discourse ;
to talk slightingly or contemptuously of. Obs.
(passing into next).
1586 Day Eng. Secretary i. (1595) 77 Your Vnclcs care,
was by vilefying his wealth vnto you . . to purchase for you
the endowment of a farre more greater and assured treasure.
1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph a88 The Pontificiari so
much depressing and vilifying his owne indisposition. 1645
Pagitt Heresio^.(ed. 2171 As these Sectaries villefie others,
so they magnifie themselves. 1667 Anne Wvndham King's
Concealm. (i68i) 53 Some envious persons have sought to
diminish and vilifie the faithful services which the Colonel
..performed. 1691 K\t Creation 1.(1692) 162 To disparage,
deride, and vilifie those Studies which themselves skill not
of. 1736 Bl'Tler