libellize

English

Etymology

From libel +‎ -ize.

Verb

libellize (third-person singular simple present libellizes, present participle libellizing, simple past and past participle libellized)

(rare) To libel.
- 1621, Thomas Robinson, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene: A Legendary Poem in Two Parts:
  In faire Encomiasticks to commend, They count it flattery; to reprehend In sharpe-fang'd Satyres, is to libellize, To raise vile slaunders, and false infamies:
- 1927, B.M. Bower, White Wolves, page 29:
  "Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously.
- 2005, BG, Harry:
  Further, this morning she had done her “trial and sentence” in front of the other boys and so had “libellized” him and she would pay for it.