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▪ I. viˈtuperate, ppl. a. rare—1.
[ad. L. vituperātus, pa. pple. of vituperāre: see next.]
Vituperated; worthy of vituperation.
1832Westm. Rev. XVI. 7 Wealth was to be discreditable, unmanly, vituperate, because it was found greatly to indispose men to be active thieves.
▪ II. vituperate, v.|vaɪˈtjuːpəreɪt, vɪ-|
[f. L. vituperāt-, ppl. stem of vituperāre to censure, blame, disparage, find fault with, etc., f. vitu- for viti-, stem of vitium blemish, fault, vice n.1 + parāre to prepare. See also vituper v.]
trans. To blame, speak ill of, find fault with, in strong or violent language; to assail with abuse; to rate or revile.
Not in common use until the beginning of the 19th c.
1542Boorde Dyetary xvi. (1870) 273 They louyth not porke nor swynes flesshe, but doth vituperat & abhorre it. 1611Cotgr., Vituperer, to vituperate, dispraise, discommend. [Hence in Cockeram, Blount, Bailey, etc.] 1638Penkethman Artach. C ij, Whatsoever transcends their sedulous apprehension..without any favourable expostulation..they will unworthily and unwittingly vituperate and reprehend.
1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxiii, The incensed priests..continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin. 1826Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Pop. Fallacies iv, A speech from the poorest sort of people which always indicates that the party vituperated is a gentleman. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 477 He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court. 1883A. Forbes in Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 671 Englishmen are not in the habit of vituperating Monk as a traitor.
refl.1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. x. (1873) 96 Deviation from scenic propriety has only to vituperate itself for the consequences it generates.
b. absol. or intr. To employ abusive language.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics viii. v. 46 Vituperated and vituperating, he became a wanderer throughout Germany. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. vi. 168 He loses his temper and begins to vituperate.
Hence viˈtuperated ppl. a.
1841Emerson Conservative Wks. (Bohn) II. 272 You are yourself the result of this manner of living, this foul compromise, this vituperated Sodom. |