diabolize (diaboliz)

t.; pret. and pp. diab olized, ppr. diabolizing. [ impart diabolical ideas to. [Rare.] He [the reformer] should resolve, with all his might, to divinize instead of diabolize public life. N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 249. There were two things, when I was a boy, that diabo . lized my imagination-I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape which prowled round the neighborhood where I was born and bred. ground on the roots of plants. A very common North American species is D. vittata (Fabric i us), of a bright-yellow color, the head and two stripes on each wing-cover black, as are the abdomen and parts of the legs; the elytra are punctate in rows. The species is injurious to squashes and allied plants, and is known as the striped cucumber-beetle. D. duodecim punctata, another common species, has 12 large black spots on the elytra. IMG:content-2543.png:[blocks in formation] diacatholicon (dia-ka-punand b. Do duodecim size).