v. rare. Also vampyrise. [f. as prec.] a. intr. To act as a vampire. b. trans. = VAMPIRE v.
1819. [Polidori], The Vampyre, Introd. p. xxii. That the deceased is not only doomed to vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to those beings he loved most while upon earth.
1888. McCarthy & Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, III. vii. 121. She took to fiction,… and vampirized Mrs. Lance when she found her own experience and imagination inadequate.
