constuprate

verb

constuprate

verb

Etymology Borrowed from Latin constuprātus, perfect passive participle of constuprō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- + stuprum (“dishonor, shame”) + -ō.

1

Obsolete To rape, violate.

  • 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 […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vii:

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