† viˈtupery Obs.
Also 5 vituperye, 6 -ie.
[a. AF. vituperie (Gower), OF. *vituperie (= Pr. vituperi, Sp., Pg., and It. vituperio), ad. late or med.L. vituperium (Diefenbach), blame, dishonour, shame, f. L. vituperāre to vituperate. Cf. vituper n.]
Dishonour, reproach, shame; blame, vituperation.
| 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. iv. i. P iiij, It may be y{supt} som..wolde gladly vse therof [sc. a safe-conduct], whiche ought to tourne them in to grete vituperye and blame. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 105 He ought..to defende the same (euen to the death) from all challenge or vituperie. 1590 Barrow & Greenwood in Coll. Lett. & Confer. 36 The rest of the vituperie wherwith you haue laden vs. 1608 H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 35 Emulations, heart-burnings, vituperies, bloudy practises. 1620 Shelton Quix. ii. liii. 357 At whose perswasions & vitupery, the poore Gouernour tried if he could mooue himselfe. |