VIL'IFY, v.t. [from vile.]
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade.Their Maker's image forsook them, when themselves they vilified to serve ungovern'd appetite.2. To defame; to traduce; to attempt to degrade by slander.Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.[This is the most usual sense of the verb.]