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▪ I. † vituper, n. Obs.
Also 5 vi-, vytupere, 6 Sc. wituper.
[a. OF. vituper, -ere (obs. or arch. F. vitupère, = Pr. vetupier), ad. late or med.L. vituperium vitupery.]
Vituperation.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 188 Thir fals Jowis..revy[l]is thame and dois all the vituper thai may to haly kirk and to the sacrament. 1484Caxton Fables of Auian xv, Suche is now in grete honour and worship that herafter shalle falle in to grete vytupere shame and dishonour. c1500Melusine xxxiii. 233 To the moost vytupere & shame of the Catholycal feyth. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxvii. 109 Mark als þe wite, vise, wituper, and the waige Off wntried traisoun and of tyrannye.
▪ II. † vituper, v. Obs. rare.
In 5 vytuper.
[a. OF. vituperer (10th c.; obs. or arch. F. vitupérer = Pr., Sp. and Pg. vituperar, It. -are), ad. L. vituperāre to vituperate. Cf. prec.]
trans. To vituperate or revile; to dishonour or disgrace.
1484Caxton Fables of æsop iii. vii, Men preysen som⁓tyme that that shold be blamed & vytupered And ofte men..vytuperen that that shold be preysed. c1489― Sonnes of Aymon xiv. 337 O, gode lord..deliver me from the handes of my enmyes that I be not vytupered nor brought to shame. |