devilize

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English

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Etymology

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From devil +‎ -ize.

Verb

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devilize (third-person singular simple present devilizes, present participle devilizing, simple past and past participle devilized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

  1. (transitive) To represent as a devil.
    • 1624, Joseph Hall, The Enemies of the Cross of Christ:
      He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.
    • 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and Their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in His Name”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: [], London: [] T. Warner, [], →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 244:
      [W]hen his other more momentous Avocations of Pedantry and Pedagogiſm vvill give him an Interval from VVrath and Contention, he vvill ſet apart a Moment to conſider humane Nature Deviliz'd, and give us a Mathematical Anatomical Deſcription of it; []

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