Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scandalize

Scandalize , transitive verb

[French scandaliser, Latin scandalizare, from Greek skandali`zein.]

1.
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. — Hooker
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. — Sir W. Scott
2.
To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. — Sir W. Scott