Meanings
present singular third person devilizes · participle present devilizing · participle past devilized · past devilized · alternative devilise
- BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitiveTo represent as a devil.
He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.
1624, Joseph Hall, The Enemies of the Cross of Christ1 more example
[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; […]
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, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 244
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekδιαβάλλω (diabállō)
- Ancient Greekδιάβολος (diábolos)
- Latindiabolus
- Proto-West Germanic*diubul
- Old Englishdēofol
- Middle Englishdevel
- Englishdevil
- Englishdevilize
Cite this entry
devilize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devilize
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