Vil"lan*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Villanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Villanizing (?).]

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.

[R.]

Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's fame. Dryden.

 

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