Word Meanings - CONSTUPRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To ravish; to debauch. Burton.
Related words: (words related to CONSTUPRATE)
- RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - DEBAUCHMENT
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. - RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting. - DEBAUCHNESS
Debauchedness. - DEBAUCH
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. - DEBAUCHEDNESS
The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall. - RAVISH
1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden. 2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight - RAVISHINGLY
In a ravishing manner. - DEBAUCHEDLY
In a profligate manner. - DEBAUCHERY
1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke. 2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; - BURTON
A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part. - DEBAUCHER
One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness. - RAVISHMENT
1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of - DEBAUCHED
Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton. - DEBAUCHEE
One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine. - ENRAVISHINGLY
So as to throw into ecstasy. - ENRAVISHMENT
The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill. - ENRAVISH
To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.