scandalize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SCAN'DALIZE, verb transitive [Gr. Latin scandalizo.] 1. To offend by some action supposed criminal. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things? 2. To reproach; to disgrace; to defame; as a scandalizing libeler.
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