v. [UN-2 4 b and 6.]
1. trans. To free from demoniacal possession.
1632. Quarles, Div. Fancies, I. xi. Whenas our blessed Saviour did un-devill The Man possest, the Spirits … Entred the Swine.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. iv. § 55. The Boy … would not be undeviled by their Exorcisms.
1890. Talmage, From Manger to Throne, 81. Mouth of cavern, where madman was undevilled.
2. To deprive of the qualities of a devil.
1726. De Foe, Hist. Devil, II. iii. (1840), 199. If we should take away his invisibility too, we should undevil him quite.
Hence Undevilling vbl. sb.
1653. A. Wilson, Jas. I., 108. Some Romish Priests … tampering with their Exorcisms, to the undevilling of the boy.
