VILIFY

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.] When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton.

2.
v.

To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind. Addison.

3.
v.

To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.] I do vilify your censure. Beau. & Fl.

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