constuprate

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English

Etymology

From the participle stem of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin constuprāre, from con- +‎ stuprum (“violation”).

Verb

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  1. (obsolete) To rape, violate. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 […].

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cōnstuprāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnstuprō
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