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