Meanings
plural mastuprations
- archaiccountableuncountableMasturbation.
She had caught him at the age of twelve in the act of mastupration. Unseemly, unroman, Greekish, Jewish. Well, in a sense he had done nothing but mastuprate since taking the purple.
1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked1 more example
it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries[…], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 2, subsection 4
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinmanus“hand”
- Englishmastupration
An alternate form of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”). Compare manustupration.
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