constuprateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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 […].