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▪ I. † ˈtoxicate, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 5 toxicat, 6 tocksicate.
[f. med.L. toxicāt-us, pa. pple. of L. toxicāre to smear with poison: see next.]
Charged or infected with poison; poisoned; poisonous.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. iii. (Cock & Fox) xxx, Flatteraris..With fals mening, and mynd maist toxicate. c1475Partenay 1429 The king..With toxicat uenym replete was certain. 1581J. Studley Seneca's Hercules Œtæus 199 b, So yet my wits be tocksicate, although my feare be gone.
▪ II. † ˈtoxicate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. toxicāre to poison (in John of Salisbury, c 1150), f. L. toxic-um poison: see toxicum.]
trans. To poison. Hence † ˈtoxicating vbl. n.
1635Heywood Hierarch. viii. 518 Which Feuer shakes him,..And a strange Megrim toxicates his head. 1653E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. 12 Each morning to bite on Rue, which..secures her against the toxicating of that venomous Basilisk. |