2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind. Addison.
3. To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.] I do vilify your censure. Beau. & Fl.
VILIPEND Vil"i*pend, v. t. Etym: [L. vilipendere; vilis vile + pendere to weigh, to value: cf. F. vilipender.]
Defn: To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
To vilipend the art of portrait painting. Longfellow.
VILIPENDENCY
Vil"i*pend"en*cy, n.
Defn: Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.
VILITY
Vil"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. vilitas: cf. F. vileté, vilité, OF. vilté.]
Defn: Vileness; baseness. [Obs.] Kennet.
VILL
Vill, n. Etym: [OF. ville, vile, a village, F. ville a town, city.
See Villa.]
Defn: A small collection of houses; a village. "Every manor, town, or
vill." Sir M. Hale.
Not should e'er the crested fowl From thorp or vill his matins sound
for me. Wordsworth.