constuprate
English
Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin constuprāre, from con- + stuprum (“violation”).
Verb
constuprate (third-person singular simple present constuprates, present participle constuprating, simple past and past participle constuprated)
- (obsolete) To rape, violate. [16th-17th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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 […].
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Latin
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