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diabolize, v.|daɪˈæbəlaɪz|
[f. Gr. διάβολος devil + -ize. (Du Cange has diabolizāre = dæmonizāre for Gr. δαιµονίζεσθαι to be possessed by a demon or ‘devil’.)]
1. trans. To make a devil of, turn into a devil; to make like the devil; to render diabolical.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. App. (1852) 216 The mixt Paganry and Popery which hitherto diabolized them. a1711Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 296 The jealous Fears which Tyrants seize Diabolize them by degrees. 1889Cornh. Mag. Sept. 268 The devil, only less than archangel ruined, retaining much of his former beauty, and almost all his former power, though now diabolised. 1890Chicago Advance 24 July, Manufacturing rum to..debauch and diabolize the..natives of Africa.
2. To represent or figure as diabolical.
a1883O. W. Holmes Jonathan Edwards in Pages fr. Old Vol. Life 400 It is a less violence to our nature to deify protoplasm than it is to diabolize the Deity.
3. To subject to diabolical influence.
1823[see diabolized below]. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. viii. 170 There were two things..that diabolized my imagination,—I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape.
Hence diˈabolized ppl. a.; diaboliˈzation, the action of diabolizing, or representing as a devil.
1823Bentham Not Paul 319 A man in his sound senses counterfeiting a diabolized man or a madman. 1879M. D. Conway Demonol. II. iv. xi. 120 The diabolisation of Asteria (the fallen star) was through her daughter Hecate. |