† lurcatev.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
intransitive. To eat ravenously.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Lurcate.
1644 Vindex Anglicus 6 (in list of ‘ink-horn’ terms).
Derivatives
lurˈcation n.
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1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Lurcation,..a greedy eating or gluttonizing.
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v.1623- to set lowe to
- to set lunt to
- to set measures to
- to set mind at rest
- to set more store or price by
- to set naught or nought by
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- to set naught or nought nothing by
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- to set off
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