Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Villanize \Vil"lan*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Villanized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Villanizing}.]
   To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. [R.]

         Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never
         villanize his father's fame.             --Dryden.