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infamize, v.|ˈɪnfəmaɪz|
[f. L. infāmis infame a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To render infamous; to brand with infamy; to stigmatize with; = infame v. 1.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 37 Another age..may baffull and infamize my name when I am in heauen. 1817Coleridge Zapoyla i. i. 141 Riotous slanderers leagued To infamize the name of the king's brother With a lie black as hell. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. v. x. §2 (1876) 560/1 The moral sense of mankind very rightly infamizes those who resist an otherwise just claim on the ground of usury.
b. To render infamous in law.
1827Mill in Bentham's Rat. Jud. Evid. V. 746 All persons..who have suffered any afflictive or infamizing punishment. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1873) I. xxiii. 472 Certain obligations..are sanctioned by penalties which are purely infamising: by a declaration pronounced by competent authority, that the party shall be held infamous or merits infamy. 1865Mill in Westm. Rev. XXVIII. 18.
2. To defame; = infame v. 2.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. i. Noah 577 Cham that impudently view'd His Fathers shame, and..thus began To imfamize the poor old drunken man. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 74 This Cardinal did always use to infamise the Father for his publisht Writings with odious appellations. 1817Coleridge Own Times (1850) III. 957 Who infamizes another man as an Apostate and Renegado. 1831Examiner 449/2 How is the claim to be stated without infamizing the claimant?
Hence ˈinfamizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. (see sense 1 b); also ˈinfamizer, a defamer.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. (1593) 180 Vnlineall vsurpers of iudgement, infamizers of vice. 1827–32Infamizing [see 1 b above]. 1841Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) VI. 197 Whatever baseness, whatever cruelty, whatever infamizing of the national character [etc.]. |