Word Meanings - BELIBEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.

Related words: (words related to BELIBEL)

• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• LIBELLEE
  The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
• LIBELANT
  One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
• CALUMNIATE
  To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify;
• TRADUCE
  as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. Glanvill. 2.
• LIBELLULID
  A dragon fly.
• LIBEL
  A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. Note: The term, in a more
• TRADUCER
  1. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall. 2. One who derives or deduces. Fuller.
• LIBELIST
  A libeler.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• LIBELER
  One who libels. " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.
• LIBELLULOID
  Like or pertaining to the dragon fi
• LIBELOUS
  Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. -- Li"bel*ous*ly, adv.
• BELIBEL
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
• INTERLIBEL
  To libel mutually.