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VITUPER.
1656 Blount Gtossogr. 1786-1S05 Tooke Purley (1829)
II. 444. i860 Wraxall Life in Sea ii. 27 In spite of tlieir
[i.e. seals'] clumsy form, the vituline countenance wears
an expression of calmness and peace. 1B70 Lowell Amongmy
Bks. Ser. i. (1S73) 167 If a double allowance of vituline
brains deserve such honor, there are few commentators on
Shakespeare that would have gone afoot.
t Vituper, sb. Obs. Also 5 vi-, vytupere, 6
Sc. wituper. [a. OF. vituper^ -ere (obs. or arch.
F. vitup^rey = Pr. vetupier\ ad. late or med.L.
viHiperium Vituperv.] Vituperation.
1456 SrR G. Have Lazv Arms (S.T.S.) 188 Thir fals Jowts
..revy[llis thame and dots all the vituper thai may to
haly kirk and to the sacrament. 1484 Caxton Fables 0/
Aitian xv, Suche is now in grete honour and worship that
herafier shalle falle in to greie vytupere shame and dishonour,
c 1500 Melnsine xxxiii. 233 To the moost vytupere
& shame of the Catholycal feyth. 1571 Satir. Poems Heform,
xxvii. 109 Mark als J>e wite, vise, wituper, and the
waige Offwntried traisoun and of tyrannye.
t Vituper, z/, Obs. rare. In 5 vytuper. [a.
OF. vituperer (loth c. ; obs. or arch. F. vitiip^rer
= Pr,, Sp. and Pg. vituperar, It. -ar^), ad. L.
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