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Definition of Diabolize
1. Verb. Turn into a devil or make devilish. "Man devilized by war"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Devil, Devil, Devil
Definition of Diabolize
1. v. t. To render diabolical.
Definition of Diabolize
1. Verb. (archaic) to represent as diabolical ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diabolize
1. [v -LIZED, -LIZING, -LIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diabolize
Literary usage of Diabolize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"... errand in theology as good as that of his colonist forefathers, who had made
it their business " to diabolize the deity," as he expressed it ? ..."
2. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"It is a less violence to our nature to deify protoplasm than it is to diabolize
the Deity. The practical effect of Edwards's teachings about the relations ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"... and schismatic broils, which have already begun, as will be shown in our notice
of a work on the subject, to diabolize missionary Chris.. tianity. ..."
4. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"diabolize one of these early masters, deprive him of the leading of the church,
turn him loose in a disordered and despicable Spain, energize him more ..."
5. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1881)
"... he would take all the bread of heaven and make a stone of it; he would diabolize
the very Deity himself. That is the thick end of the wedge. ..."
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