tossicate

present singular third person tossicates · participle present tossicating · participle past tossicated · past tossicated

1. obsoleteTo upset, agitate, or disturb.

   As one of the workmen expressed it, “ the earth was all turned and tossicated about.”

   1857, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 298

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   “Sit down on the bed, a lanman,” whispered the director to me; “ they won't disturb a lady, though they'd think little about tossicating the poor.”

   1834, The New Monthly Magazine, page 349

   She'll tossicate yer brains in no time, and be as composed herself as a dove on her nest in a storm.

   1851, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Stories of the Irish Peasantry, page 35

   The whiskey is at length sent for, but only for the purpose of being diluted, which when Judy detects, she exclaims, " Oh, if you plase, ma'am, don't put wather to it — the whiskey never harms me, but the water tossicates me sadly — just one glass, if you plase, ma'am; it's as good as five years' life to me."

   1874, Samuel Lover, “The Dublin Fishwoman”, in Bayle Bernard, editor, The Life of Samuel Lover: Selections from unpublished papers and letters, page 33