DIABOLIFY VERB to portray as diabolical; to represent as a devil; to denounce as evil or wicked - 1657 ETYMOLOGY from Latin diabolus (devil n.) + -fy FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1657 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...For though they know not well what they are, yet every man takes courage enough to handle them, and let in, and let out whom they please; one faction turns them against another, the Lutheran against the Calvinist, and diabolifies him; and the Calvinist against the Lutheran, and superdiabolifies him..." From: XXX Sermons Lately Preached at the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen Milkstreet, London to which is annexed, A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of George Whitmore, Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of the City - Anthony Farindon
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