Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vilipend \Vil"i*pend\, v. t. [L. vilipendere; vilis vile +
   pendere to weigh, to value: cf. F. vilipender.]
   To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.

         To vilipend the art of portrait painting. --Longfellow.