constuprate

Meanings

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

present singular third person constuprates · participle present constuprating · participle past constuprated · past constuprated

obsoleteTo rape, violate.First known use 16th–17th c.
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
Synonyms: abuse, outrage, ravish, abuse, defile, defoul, dishonour, force

verbTo rape, violate.

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

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