commacerate

English

Verb

commacerate (third-person singular simple present commacerates, present participle commacerating, simple past and past participle commacerated)

1. (obsolete) To harass, torment.
   • 1596, Thomas Nash, Have with you to Saffron Walden, page 29:

     ... to get perfect intelligence of his life and conversation, one true point whereof, well set downe, wil more excruciate and commacerate him, than knocking him about the eares with his owne stile in a hundred sheetes of paper.

References

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes