v. [f. BE- 4 + LIBEL v.]
trans. To assail with libels; to traduce, slander, calumniate. Hence Belibelled ppl. a.
a. 1626. Breton, Packet Lett., II. xvi. Belibelling the wicked, abusing the honest, or pleasing the foolish.
1683. Cave, Ecclesiastici, 493. To be thus traduced and … be-libelled in publick Sermons.
1881. Athenæum, 13 Aug., 209/3. Sir John Fastolf, the much be-libelled original of Falstaff.
