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Libelant :: Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

Libel :: Libel (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law..

Libel :: Libel (v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against..

Libel :: Libel (n.) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.

Libel :: Libel (n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc..

Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself..

Interlibel :: Interlibel (v. t.) To libel mutually.

Libel :: Libel (v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon..

Accusatory :: Accusatory (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel..

Libelous :: Libelous (a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet..

Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story..

Libelling :: Libelling () of Libe.

Libeled :: Libeled (imp. & p. p.) of Libe.

Libelluloid :: Libelluloid (a.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies.

Libelled :: Libelled () of Libe.

Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud..

Calumniate :: Calumniate (v. t.) To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel..

Libel :: Libel (v. t.) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods..

Libelist :: Libelist (n.) A libeler.

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