1. trans. To dishonor; to do discredit to.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 35. Þis is sunne, & ec uncunnelicheð þe, & unwurðcheð [v.r. unwurdgeð] þi bodi.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. liii. 156 b. To feed that dispersiue humour, all wayes shall be trodden, though they never so much vnworthy the man.
2. To asperse or vilify. Hence Unworthying ppl. a.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 459. They know not how to raise their slender Merits, but by levelling others that excell them in any thing, with their unworthying Tongues.
