constuprate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin constuprāre, from con- + stuprum (violation).

Verb

constuprate (third-person singular simple present constuprates, present participle constuprating, simple past and past participle constuprated)

  1. (obsolete) To rape, violate. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vii:
      Anno 1527, when Rome was sacked by Burbonius, [] their wives and loveliest daughters constuprated by every base cullion, as Sejanus' daughter was by the hangman in public […].

Latin

Verb

cōnstūprāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnstūprō
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