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▪ I. † ˈtribulate, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
In 6 Sc. tribulat.
[ad. L. trībulāt-us, pa. pple. of trībulāre: see next.]
Tribulated. (Const. as pa. pple.)
1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 32 [Q]uhen he on sey be storme was tribulat.
▪ II. tribulate, v.|ˈtrɪbjʊleɪt|
[f. L. trībulāt-, ppl. stem of trībulāre; or perh. from tribulation, q.v.]
trans. To afflict; to oppress; to trouble greatly.
a1637N. Ferrar 110 Consid. (1638) 122 If such a one be needy, tribulated, and afflicted, it is because it so pleaseth God. 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Cdl. Albani & Picture-Dealers Wks. 1846 II. 7/2 The Pontifical Chancery and the Ruota Criminale would never tribulate gallant men in this guise. 1845Carlyle Cromwell ix. (1871) IV. 136 Otherwise tribulated by subaltern authorities. 1885S. Cox Expositions I. xxiii. 306 ‘He will tribulate them that tribulate you’, says St. Paul to the Thessalonians. |