a. ? Obs. [ad. obs. or arch. F. vitupéreux (= Pr. vituperos), or Sp. (also It. and Pg.) vituperoso, ad. late or med.L. vituperōsus, f. vituperium VITUPERY: see -OUS.]

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  1.  = VITUPERIOUS a. 1.

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1588.  Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 33. Then they returne againe with vituperous and vile words.

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  2.  = VITUPERIOUS a. 2.

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1610.  Chester’s Tri., To Rdr. A 2 b. Let him be prest without pity…, and like a vituperous offender, be stamped and stared at.

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1651.  Culpepper, Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658), 173. White clouds in the Urine, and neer the bottome, are commendable; black clouds, and neer the top, are bad and vituperous.

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  Hence Vituperously adv., vituperatively.

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1843.  Freeman’s Jrnl. (Dublin), 16 Feb., 3/4. He was willing to give him the aid of counsel, not to come there to deal vituperously with the case of his client, but to state the case.

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1892.  E. L. Wakeman, in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 18 Aug. Authorities differ not only widely but vituperously as to the origin of practical effort for their betterment.

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