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.