Libellize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To libel. rare

    "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:"

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"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:"

Etymology

From libel + -ize.

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