constuprate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the participle stem of Latin constuprāre, from con- + stuprum (“violation”).
Verb
[edit]constuprate (third-person singular simple present constuprates, present participle constuprating, simple past and past participle constuprated)
- (obsolete) To rape, violate. [16th–17th c.]
- 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:
- 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
[edit]Verb
[edit]cōnstuprāte