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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin constuprātus, perfect passive participle of constuprō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- + stuprum (“dishonor, shame”) + -ō.
Verb
constuprate (third-person singular simple present constuprates, present participle constuprating, simple past and past participle constuprated)
- (obsolete) To rape, violate.
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
Verb
cōnstuprāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of cōnstuprō