libellize

To libel.

Verb

  1. To libel.
    • 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: - 1621, Thomas Robinson, The Life and Death of Mary...
    • "Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously. - 1927, B.M. Bower, White Wolves, page 29:
    • 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. - 2005, BG, Harry:

Origin

From libel + -ize.

Forms

libellizes libellizing libellized