diabolifyv.

1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. i. 59 The Lutheran [turns] against the Calvinist, and diabolifies him.

1777 W. Combe Anti-diabo-lady (new ed.) Ded. p. ii I know not that I am entitled to sexify him, since, by his own Assumption, he has chosen to diabolify himself.

1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 222 Dante's devils, his Minos and his Charon diabolified.

1857 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. III. xxviii. 442 The time is past when it was thought necessary for a loyal subject of the British crown to deify Charles or diabolify Cromwell.

1930 Sat. Rev. 25 Oct. 521/1 Mr. Rudolpf Besier in the lively fashion of the moment prefers to diabolify Edward Moulton-Barrett.

1960 J. Fowles Jrnl. 30 Mar. (2008) I. vii. 435 The easiest way [to quit smoking]..is to personify, diabolify the craving. When I feel I must smoke, I say, ‘It is Satan calling.’

2012 D. Albright in Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten ii. 128 Falstaff's way of diabolifying his acquaintances is so thorough that everyone starts to regard his henchmen as cartoon devils.

1784 Monthly Rev. Jan. 77 The Diabolification of Washington, compared to whom the contrivers of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew were angels of mercy!

1893 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 346/1 Apotheosis is still with us, and diabolification (if I may coin a word).

1902 B. J. Vos tr. P. D. C. de la Saussaye Relig. Teutons I. xii. 262 Christian influence in the so-called diabolification of Loki is in any case not to be rated very high.

2012 G. Elgat Nietzsche's Overcoming of Schopenhauer's Pessimism vii. 277 The self-vindication of the slaves and the diabolification of the masters.