Obs. Also 5 vi-, vytupere, 6 Sc. wituper. [a. OF. vituper, -ere (obs. or arch. F. vitupère, = Pr. vetupier), ad. late or med.L. vituperium VITUPERY.] Vituperation.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 188. Thir fals Jowis revy[l]is thame and dois all the vituper thai may to haly kirk and to the sacrament.
1484. Caxton, Fables of Auian, xv. Suche is now in grete honour and worship that herafter shalle falle in to grete vytupere shame and dishonour.
c. 1500. Melusine, xxxiii. 233. To the moost vytupere & shame of the Catholycal feyth.
1571. Satir. Poems Reform., xxvii. 109. Mark als þe wite, vise, wituper, and the waige Off wntried traisoun and of tyrannye.
