ETYMOLOGY
from Old French vituperieus (implied in the adv. vituperieusement),
or from late or medieval Latin vituperiōsus from vituperium (vitupery)
EXAMPLE
“…Muse I inuoke the vtmost of thy might,
That with an armed and auspitious wing,
Thou be obsequious in his doubtlesse right
Gainst the vile Athiests vituperious sting:
Where thou that gate industriously mai’st flie,
Which Nature striues but fainedlie to goe,
Borne by a power so eminent and hie,
As in his course leaues reason farre belowe,
To shew how Poesie (simplie hath her praise)
That from full Joue takes her celestiall birth,
And quicke as fire, her glorious selfe can raise
Aboue this base and euitable earth…”
From: Moyses in a Map of his Miracles
By Michael Drayton, 1604
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