libellize

English

Etymology

libel +‎ -ize

Verb

libellize (third-person singular simple present libellizes, present participle libellizing, simple past and past participle libellized)

1. (rare) To libel.
   • 1621, Thomas Robinson, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene: A Legendary Poem in Two Parts:

     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:

   • 1927, B.M. Bower, White Wolves, page 29:

     "Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously.

   • 2005, BG, Harry:

     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.