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† vituˈperious, a. Obs.
[a. OF. vituperieus (implied in the adv. vituperieusement; cf. Sp. vituperioso), or ad. late or med.L. vituperiōsus (Diefenbach), f. vituperium vitupery: see -ious.]
1. Vituperative, strongly abusive or censorious.
1604Drayton Moyses i. 2 Muse, I inuoke the vtmost of thy might,..Gainst the vile Atheists vituperious sting. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 490 To confound the calumnious and vituperious Papists. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 88 Vituperious Sarcasms, Secret rejoycings at their ruins.
2. Worthy of blame, vituperable; hence, shameful, discreditable, disgraceful, ignominious.
1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger i. iv. 281 O what doe I see, and what doe I heare in my dayes, what vituperious crimes? 1624Gag for Pope 12 Clothed with the Sambenito, a punishment as vituperious as the carting of Bawdes in England. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 15/2 The bearing of these Hellish Vituperious, horrid and vile things, is to deter..the beholder from becoming like them.
Hence † vituˈperiously adv., vituperatively; shamefully. Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. i. (1906) 3 The name and fame of the most righteous alive,..be thus diversly taxed and vituperiously calumniated. 1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 130 So they concluded to die sooner,..then to live so vituperiously in such a basenesse and servitude. |