devilizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

devilize (三人称単数 現在形 devilizes, 現在分詞 devilizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 devilized) (米国用法 spelling, Oxford 英国用法 English)

1. (transitive) To represent as a devil.
   • 1624, Joseph Hall, The Enemies of the Cross of Christ

     He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.

   • 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and Their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in His Name”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: […], London: […] T. Warner, […], OCLC 745119384, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 244:

     [W]hen his other more momentous Avocations of Pedantry and Pedagogiſm vvill give him an Interval from VVrath and Contention, he vvill ſet apart a Moment to conſider humane Nature Deviliz'd, and give us a Mathematical Anatomical Deſcription of it; […]