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jugulate, v.|ˈdʒuːgjʊleɪt| [f. L. jugulāt-, ppl. stem of jugulāre to cut the throat of, to slay; f. jugulum: see jugular and -ate3.] 1. trans. To kill by cutting the throat; to kill, slay, put to death.
1623Cockeram, Iugulate, to slay or kill. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 46 That were to jugulate, not to purge men. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. vi. 421 They must have been too like the victimes which they jugulated. 1834–43Southey Doctor xxiii (1862) 55 And then for Death to summon the Pope and jugulate him. 2. fig. To ‘strangle’; spec. to stop the course of (a disease) by a powerful remedy.
1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 313 It..so compresses the vessels as to jugulate the inflammatory process. 1894Columbus (O.) Disp. 2 Jan., It is bad policy..to attempt to jugulate advertising. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 123 Misplaced attempts to ‘jugulate’ the disease [pneumonia]. So juguˈlation; ˈjugulator. rare—0.
1623Cockeram, Iugulation, a cutting of ones throat. 1882Ogilvie, Jugulator, a cut-throat or murderer. 1887Syd. Soc. Lex., Jugulation, the sudden arrest of a disease by a powerful remedy. |