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Verb
tossicate (third-person singular simple present tossicates, present participle tossicating, simple past and past participle tossicated)
- (obsolete) To upset, agitate, or disturb.
1834, The New Monthly Magazine, page 349:“Sit down on the bed, a lanman,” whispered the director to me; “ they won't disturb a lady, though they'd think little about tossicating the poor.”
1851, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Stories of the Irish Peasantry, page 35:She'll tossicate yer brains in no time, and be as composed herself as a dove on her nest in a storm.
1857, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 298:As one of the workmen expressed it, “ the earth was all turned and tossicated about.”
1874, Samuel Lover, “The Dublin Fishwoman”, in Bayle Bernard, editor, The Life of Samuel Lover: Selections from unpublished papers and letters, page 33:The whiskey is at length sent for, but only for the purpose of being diluted, which when Judy detects, she exclaims, " Oh, if you plase, ma'am, don't put wather to it — the whiskey never harms me, but the water tossicates me sadly — just one glass, if you plase, ma'am; it's as good as five years' life to me."
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