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English
Etymology
From devil + -ize.
Verb
devilize (third-person singular simple present devilizes, present participle devilizing, simple past and past participle devilized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive) To represent as a devil.
1624, Joseph Hall, The Enemies of the Cross of Christ:He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.
1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and Their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in His Name”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: , London: T. Warner, , →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 244:hen his other more momentous Avocations of Pedantry and Pedagogiſm vvill give him an Interval from VVrath and Contention, he vvill ſet apart a Moment to conſider humane Nature Deviliz'd, and give us a Mathematical Anatomical Deſcription of it; […]