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libellize

libellize verb: to libel.

Verb

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

  1. (rare) 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 Magdalene: A Legendary Poem in Two Parts
    • "Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously.1927, B.M. Bower, White Wolves, page 29

Forms of libellize

third-person singular presentlibellizes
present participlelibellizing
past participlelibellized
pastlibellized

Origin of libellize

From libel + -ize.

Questions about libellize

What does libellize mean?
Libellize means to libel.
What part of speech is libellize?
Libellize is a verb.
What is the past tense of libellize?
The past tense of libellize is libellized.

Words near libellize in the dictionary

  1. libelles
  2. libelleth
  3. libelling
  4. libellist
  5. libellists
  6. libellize
  7. libellized
  8. libellizes
  9. libellizing
  10. libellous
  11. libellously

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