aucupate

English

Etymology

From Latin aucupātus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.kjʊ.peɪt/
• (General American) /ˈɔ.kjə.peɪt/
  • (cot–caught merger) /ˈɑ.kjə.peɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkjʊpeɪt

Verb

aucupate (third-person singular simple present aucupates, present participle aucupating, simple past and past participle aucupated)

1. (obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance.
   • 1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven:

     Now this is the howre, now this the half, now this is the Quarter, the Minute, the second, the third, the fourth, and so Fourth to the Tenth, that I do aucupate, or do gape after the slowe comming of my knave-booting Rascalls to Olympus with their venaisons alive

   • 1630, John Taylor, Workes:

     Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo, To aucupate great favors from Apollo.

   • 1831, The Westminster Review, volume 15, page 62:

     Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist.

Latin

Participle

aucupāte

1. vocative masculine singular of aucupātus