belibel

From be- +‎ libel.

belibel (third-person singular simple present belibels, present participle belibelling or belibeling, simple past and past participle belibelled or belibeled)

1. (dated, transitive) To libel, slander, calumniate.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     See the laziness of posterity ; so far from imitating the industry of their ancestors , that they belibel the pure effects of their pains as hellish achievements

• “belibel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• leblebi