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calumniate, v.|kəˈlʌmnɪeɪt|
[f. L. calumniāt- ppl. stem of calumniāri; see -ate3. Cf. 16th c. Fr. calomnier.]
1. trans. To asperse with calumny, utter calumny regarding; to accuse or charge falsely and maliciously with something criminal or disreputable; to slander.
1554Bp. Hooper in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xxiv. 67 So that hatred unto the trewth dyd alwayse falsly reporte and calumniate all godly mens doinges. 1611Bible Pref. 2 marg., The highest personages have been calumniated. 1620N. Brent tr. Sarpi's Hist. Council Trent (1676) 480 Mantua was..calumniated to be ill affected. 1718Free-thinker No. 2. 12 He was never heard to Calumniate his Adversary for want of Argument. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 309 We must not calumniate even the Inquisition.
b. intr. (absol.) To utter calumnies.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 124 Deceptious functions Created onely to calumniate. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 27 The Editor and his Witnesses may calumniate as they please.
†2. To charge (a thing) calumniously against a person. Obs. rare.
1648Eikon Bas. xii. 95, I thought, that..the gaining of that respite could not be so much to the Rebels advantages (which some haue highly calumniated against me). |