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Webster 1913 Edition
Constuprate
Con′stu-prate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Construprated
; p. p. & vb. n.
Constuprating
.] [L.
constupratus
, p. p. of constuprare
to ravish; con-
+ stuprare
to ravish, stuprum
rape.] To ravish; to debauch.
Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Constuprate
CONSTUPRATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
constuprate
constuprate
English
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, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.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 […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.vii: