Obs. Also 5 vituperye, 6 -ie. [a. AF. vituperie (Gower), OF. *vituperie (= Pr. vituperi, Sp., Pg. and It. vituperio), ad. late or med.L. vituperium (Diefenbach), blame, dishonor, shame, f. L. vituperāre to VITUPERATE. Cf. VITUPER sb.] Dishonor, reproach, shame; blame, vituperation.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., IV. i. P iiij. It may be yt som … wolde gladly vse therof [sc. a safe-conduct], whiche ought to tourne them in to grete vituperye and blame.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 105. He ought … to defende the same (euen to the death) from all challenge or vituperie.
1590. Barrow & Greenwood, in Coll. Lett. & Confer., 36. The rest of the vituperie wherwith you haue laden vs.
1608. H. Clapham, Errour Left Hand, 35. Emulations, heart-burnings, vituperies, bloudy practises.
1620. Shelton, Quix., II. liii. 357. At whose perswasions & vitupery, the poore Gouernour tried if he could mooue himselfe.
