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constuprate

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English

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Etymology

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From the participle stem of Latin constuprāre, from con- +‎ stuprum (violation).

Verb

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constuprate (third-person singular simple present constuprates, present participle constuprating, simple past and past participle constuprated)

  1. (obsolete) To rape, violate. [16th–17th c.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James 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

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Verb

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cōnstuprāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnstuprō