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scandalize

ˈskændəˌlaɪz
WordNet
Romans scandalize the land, but Cerialis promises peace and mercy to Civilis. Print 34 in a series about the Batavian Revolt, copied after the series Batavorum cum Romanis bellum by Antonio Tempesta (Otto Vaenius, Antwerp 1612). Illustration for: Marquis de St. Simon, Histoire de la guerre des Bataves et des Romains, d'après César; Corneille Tacite, Aux dépens de Marc-Michel Rey, Amsterdam 1770. Depictions printed in a large ornamental frame with a cut-out title at the top and a caption in French at the bottom.
Romans scandalize the land, but Cerialis promises peace and mercy to Civilis. Print 34 in a series about the Batavian Revolt, copied after the series Batavorum cum Romanis bellum by Antonio Tempesta (Otto Vaenius, Antwerp 1612). Illustration for: Marquis de St. Simon, Histoire de la guerre des Bataves et des Romains, d'après César; Corneille Tacite, Aux dépens de Marc-Michel Rey, Amsterdam 1770. Depictions printed in a large ornamental frame with a cut-out title at the top and a caption in French at the bottom.
  1. (v) scandalize
    strike with disgust or revulsion "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
Illustrations
Romans scandalize the land, but Cerialis promises peace and mercy to Civilis. Print number 34 in the series of prints about the Batavian Revolt: Batavorum cum Romanis bellum / à Corn. Tacito lib. IV & V.: Hist. olim descriptum, figuris nunc aeneis expressum, auctore Othone Vaenio Lugdunobatava = The Batavian or old Dutch war against the Romeynen. Otto Vaenius, Antwerp 1612. At the bottom two verses of four lines in Dutch and Latin. Text in Latin on the back.
Romans scandalize the land, but Cerialis promises peace and mercy to Civilis. Print number 34 in the series of prints about the Batavian Revolt: Batavorum cum Romanis bellum / à Corn. Tacito lib. IV & V.: Hist. olim descriptum, figuris nunc aeneis expressum, auctore Othone Vaenio Lugdunobatava = The Batavian or old Dutch war against the Romeynen. Otto Vaenius, Antwerp 1612. At the bottom two verses of four lines in Dutch and Latin. Text in Latin on the back.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Scandalize
    To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon. "I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things.", "The congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized , and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated."
  2. Scandalize
    To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. "To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. scandalize
    To offend by some action considered very wrong or outrageous; shock; give offense to: as, to be scandalized at a person's conduct.
  2. scandalize
    To disgrace; bring disgrace on.
  3. scandalize
    To libel; defame; asperse; slander.
  4. scandalize
    Also spelled scandalise.
  5. scandalize
    Nautical, to trice up the tack of the spanker or mizzen in a square-rigged vessel, or the mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. It is frequently done, to enable the helmsman to look to leeward under the foot of the sail. The same word is erroueously used of the sails on the mizzenmast of a ship when they are clued down (the ship being before the wind) to allow the sails on the mainmast to draw better. Also spelled scandalise.
Quotations
Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding
Thomas Fuller
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller
Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
Lord Chesterfield
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. scandaliser, L. scandalizare, from Gr. skandali`zein

Usage in the news

Will and Kate step out after topless scandal. cbsnews.com

Libor Scandal Set to Spread. online.wsj.com

Forensic Crime Lab Scandals May Be Due To Oversight. kwgs.org

Scandals dimmed by free pizza in voting line. marcoislandflorida.com

The University of Kansas ticket scandal, which has reached Oklahoma shores with its ties to OU, is a breach of trust with fans. blog.newsok.com

Spanier faces charges in Penn St scandal. ashingtonpost.com

Libor Rate Scandal Set to Spread. online.wsj.com

After being tied together by scandal for four years, it appears that both Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are ready to move on with new lovers. radaronline.com

America's other big scandal is the Super Bowl, where Mike Holmgren told his team to take a dive. chicagoreader.com

Kenya Is Buffeted By Graft Scandals. ashingtonpost.com

ABC Studios Sells 'Scandal' To UK Broadcaster Channel Four's More 4. hollywoodreporter.com

There's never a dull moment in the world of celebrities, scandal and controversy and what better way to see what happened this week than through photos on RadarOnline.com. radaronline.com

The scandal-hit former MF Global chief has put his penthouse condo along the Hudson on the block for $2.9 million. nypost.com

Jeremy Schaap gives his reaction to the Freeh report's findings in the Jerry Sandusky scandal. espn.go.com

Robo-signing scandal may date back to late '90s. msnbc.msn.com

Usage in scientific papers

And there is the scandal of military research.
Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?

But it is something of a scandal that there is still so little theoretical understanding of dark matter halo central behavior, although people are making progress on this problem (e.g.
Summary talk: How serious are the problems faced by CDM: cusps, thin disks, and halo substructure

It is scandalous that there has not been any progress in the past 15 years in measuring this rate more accurately.
Solar models and solar neutrino oscillations

An article in Nature written in 1988 referred to the inability, at that time, to predict the crystal structure of simple crystalline solids from their chemical composition as ”a continuing scandal” in solid state physics.
From Ginzburg-Landau to Hilbert-Einstein via Yamabe

It is precisely this approach that resulted in the 2012 LIBOR Scandal.
Interest Rate Manipulation Detection using Time Series Clustering Approach

Usage in literature

Angus, not being ashamed of his scandalous past, was really all that kept her nerves strung up. "Somewhere in Red Gap" by Harry Leon Wilson

I do not know why so many people were scandalized, or pretended to be scandalized, when Brunetiere proclaimed again the bankruptcy of science. "Tragic Sense Of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno

All scandal is avoided. "Red Pottage" by Mary Cholmondeley

The public is greedy for scandal, but looks with suspicion and coldness upon a correction. "The Colossus" by Opie Read

Hasten out on that balcony, Richard Tarbelle, and stop this scandal! "David Lockwin--The People's Idol" by John McGovern

In many instances the hardships constituted a public scandal. "Looking Seaward Again" by Walter Runciman

Besides: any public scandal just now in which I was mixed up might kill my mother. "Mrs. Warren's Daughter" by Sir Harry Johnston

No scandal, touching Frederick, had ever reached his ears: plenty of it touching John. "Verner's Pride" by Mrs. Henry Wood

In the same way, one is conscious of disappointment that the navy pother has not blossomed into a naked scandal. "Books and Persons" by Arnold Bennett

But I never listen to scandal, and I didn't believe it. "The Tysons" by May Sinclair

Usage in poetry
Safe from earthly scandal
My poor spirit hide
In the utter stillness
Of Thy wounded Side.
But who are we and whence,
If, of those years gone by,
Scandal alone remains
And we have ceased to be.
GOVERNOR. Enough, no farther.
Lelius, thou a son of mine,
A disturber? Thou a scandal
To all Antioch through my favour?
Think on the shame of dreams for deeds,
The scandal of unnatural strife,
The slur upon immortal needs,
The treason done to life:
And ah ! what varied forms of woe,
What hope and fear are found ;
What passions rise, what scandals grow,
Within this narrow bound !
Then a whisper of scandal linked his name
With broken vows and a life of blame;
And the people looked askance on him
As he walked among them sullen and grim,
Ill at ease, and bitter of word,
And prompt of quarrel with hand or sword.