aucupate

present singular third person aucupates · participle present aucupating · participle past aucupated · past aucupated

1. obsoleteTo hunt, to seek with vigilance.

   Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo, To aucupate great favors from Apollo.

   1630, John Taylor, Workes

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   Now this is the howre, now this the half, now this is the Quarter, the Minute, the second, the third, the fourth, and so Fourth to the Tenth, that I do aucupate, or do gape after the slowe comming of my knave-booting Rascalls to Olympus with their venaisons alive

   1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven

   Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist.

   1831, The Westminster Review, volume 15, page 62