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To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Shak.

Annexed to the land or manor; as, a villain regardant.

One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh.

forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

Evil; wicked; atrocious. [Obs.] "Scelestic villainies." Feltham.

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope.

and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak.

with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.

thout a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless. Slave, souless villain, dog! Shak.

Corruption; cause of corruption. [Archaic] Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. Shak.

Planned with study; deliberate; studied. For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented Rambler.

a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.

to be prolific; to abound. His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. Sir W. Scott. The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. F. Harrison.

Usury. [Obs.] Wyclif. Foul usure and lucre of villainy. Chaucer.

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats.

Villainy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Villainous. [Obs.] "Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl." Chaucer.

A villain. [R.]