rare. [f. Gr. διάβολος devil, on the model of apotheosis.] Lowering to the rank of a devil; a making or treating as diabolical.
1827. Hare, Guesses (1859), 162. The apotheosis of the Middle Ages, and the apodiabolosis of the Reformation and its effects.
1864. Realm, 25 May, 2. With one base imbecile smugness, which is the very apodiabolosis of Art.
