v. Obs. rare. [ad. L. sūgillāre, suggillāre, of doubtful etym. Cf. F. sugiller.]
1. trans. To beat black and blue, bruise.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. iii. 1039. Though we with blacks and blews are suggil’d.
2. To defame, revile.
1539–40. Abp. Parker, in Strype, Life (1711), App. 7. To allure the Peoples Minds … to ourselves, with depraving, sugilling, and noting the other. Ibid. (1561), 30. This contemptible flock, that wil not shrink to offer their Blood for the defence of Christ’s verity, if it be openly impugned, or secretly suggilled.
