† innocentizev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. ‘To breech, whip, lash (on Childermas or Innocents' day), to jerke all such as they can find in bed’ (Cotgrave: mentioned as a ‘merrie custome’ in France.)
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1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. xiv We will Innocentize your Fopship with a Wannion, you never were so innocentis'd in your days.
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