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To render infamous; to bring into disrepute. My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame. There had nothing passed between us that might blemish reputation. Oldys.

ways falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley.

To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

s be taken from equals the remainders are equal." Those who were once his equals envy and defame him. Addison.

To defame; to make infamous. [Obs.] Milton. Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. Bacon.

To make infamous; to defame. [R.] Coleridge.

To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon. Some wicked wits have libeled all the fair. Pope.

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. Sir W. Scott.

To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate. O, do not slander him, for he is kind. Shak.

One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

To defame. [Obs.] Abp. Parker.

To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden.