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libellize en · VERB

Etymology

From libel + -ize.

Meanings

1. (rare) To libel.
   • In faire Encomiasticks to commend, They count it flattery; to reprehend In sharpe-fang'd Satyres, is to libellize, To raise vile slaunders, and false infamies: 1621, Thomas Robinson, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene: A Legendary Poem in Two Parts:
   • Further, this morning she had done her “trial and sentence” in front of the other boys and so had “libellized” him and she would pay for it. 2005, BG, Harry:
   • "Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously. 1927, B.M. Bower, White Wolves, page 29:

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