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calumnious, a.|kəˈlʌmnɪəs|
Also 5 calomp-, 6 calumpniouse.
[ad. L. calumniōsus, f. calumnia: see calumny n. and -ous. But perh. Caxton took it immediately from a 15th c. F. calompnieux, -euse (though Littré has it only from 16th c.).]
Characterized by calumny; of the nature of calumny or of a calumniator; slanderous, defamatory.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 98 Dydo seeng the first openyng of the daye sore besi to chasse the tenebres calompniouse away. 1508Fisher Sev. Penit. Ps. Wks. 266 This calumnyous vyce of enuy. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. iii. 61 A foule mouth'd and calumnious knaue. 1667Milton P.L. v. 770 With calumnious Art Of counterfeted truth. 1711Steele Spect. No. 151 ⁋7 He has been..unmercifully calumnious at such a Time. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 225 It might be true that a calumnious fable had done much to bring about the Revolution. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 99 A calumnious journalist.
Hence caˈlumniously adv., caˈlumniousness.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 26 Dealing..so insincerely and calumniously. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 350 [She] most calumniously charged the vertuous Queen with her own sorcerous act. 1633Bp. Morton Discharge Imputat. 159 (R.) The bitterness of my stile was plainness, not calumniousness. |