What is "to do violence to"

Violence \Vi"o*lence\, n. [F., fr. L. violentia. See Violent.]

1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

   That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
   --Shak.

   All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict.
   --Milton.

2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

   Do violence to do man.
   --Luke iii. 14.

   We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
   --T. Burnet.

   Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence.
   --Milton.

3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.

   To do violence on, to attack; to murder. ``She . . . did violence on herself.''
   --Shak.

   To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.

   Syn: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.