v. [f. VANDAL sb. + -IZE.] trans. To render Vandal in respect of culture; to deal with or treat in a vandalistic manner.
1800. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., VIII. 684. To vandalize Europe then can have no other signification than to introduce eastern Slavonian barbarians to domination over the actual feats of culture and improvement.
1821. New Monthly Mag., II. 353. They are not only vandalized in style, but in sentiment.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. 99. The noblest monuments of art and piety have been vandalized.
Hence Vandalizing ppl. a.
1804. Fessenden, Democracy Unveiled (1806), I. 123. Direct their vandalizing ravages To make men like themselves, mere savages.
1832. Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 581. No … vigilance … could disarm their rude followers of ferocious and Vandalizing habits.
