Obs. Also 5 vileyn-, 6 vilayn-, villan- [ad. OF. vilainer, vil(l)aner, etc., f. vilain VILLAIN sb.]
1. trans. To debase or degrade; to insult.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 2492. For … it is to hygh a routhe A man tappere or dare do shewe his head When he hath ones his honour vyllanede.
1475. Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.), 74. Suffre ye not the prelates of the Chirche of that lande … to be oppressed, revaled, ne vileyned.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 344/1. When they haue once vilayned the sacrament of matrimonye, then woulde they make vs vyolate the sacrament of the aulter too.
2. To call villain; to address as a villain.
1609. Rowlands, Crew Kind Gossips, E 2. Some Rascall told my wife,… And I was villaind for it sound at night.
