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English
Etymology
From Latin insimulatus, past participle of insimulare (“to accuse”).
Verb
insimulate (third-person singular simple present insimulates, present participle insimulating, simple past and past participle insimulated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To accuse.
1620 June 21 (Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “Sermon XL. Preached at Lincoln’s Inn, upon Trinity Sunday, 1620.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., , volume II, London: John W Parker, , published 1839, →OCLC, page 218:Bring a petition to any earthly prince, and say to him, Evigila, and surge, Would your majesty would awake, and read this petition, and so insimulate him of a former drowsiness in his government; say unto him, Eripe manum, Pull thy hand out of thy bosom, and execute justice, and so insimulate him of a former manacling and slumbering of the laws; say unto him, We are become as old shoes, and as off-scourings, and so insimulate him of a diminution, and dis-estimation fallen upon the nation by him, what prince would not (and justly) conceive an indignation against such a petitioner?
Further reading
Latin
Participle
īnsimulāte
- vocative masculine singular of īnsimulātus