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Word Meanings - DEVILIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a devil of. He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him. Bp. Hall.

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  • SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
    Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
  • DEVILET
    A little devil. Barham.
  • WRONGOUS
    Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
  • WRONG
    1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
  • DEVILESS
    A she-devil. Sterne.
  • DEVILISM
    The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.
  • DEVILISH
    1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive.
  • SAINTISM
    The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood.
  • DEVILFISH
    A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
  • SHOULDERED
    Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
  • DEVILWOOD
    A kind of tree , allied to the European olive.
  • SHOULDER
    The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
  • WRONGLESS
    Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SAINTOLOGIST
    One who writes the lives of saints.
  • SAINTDOM
    The state or character of a saint. Tennyson.
  • WRONGDOING
    Evil or wicked behavior or action.
  • SAINTLINESS
    Quality of being saintly.
  • DEVILING
    A young devil. Beau. & Fl.
  • WRONGFUL
    Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
  • DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
    A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
  • VAUDEVILLE
    where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
  • HUMP-SHOULDERED
    Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
  • ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
    The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
  • SWINGDEVIL
    The European swift.
  • DISDEIFY
    To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.
  • LATTER-DAY SAINT
    A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
  • WATER DEVIL
    The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.

 

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