tosticate, v.
(ˈtɒstɪkeɪt)
Also 9 dial. tossicate.
Usually in pa. pple. tosticated, app. originally a mispronunciation of intoxicated and so used, but later also associated with tossed, tost, and used as = tossed about, distracted, perplexed. So tostiˈcation. Common dialectally; cited in E.D.D. for many counties from W. Yorksh. to Somerset.
| 1650 J. Reynolds Flower of Fidelity 3 His tosticated conceits fixt upon renowned travel. Ibid. 42 Being tosticated with the beauty. 1691 Mrs. D'Anvers Academia 8 Madam's most sadly tosticated, Knowing her Boy but empty-pated, Lest the soft Squire might starv'd be, When e're he's sent to th' 'Versity. 1712 Swift Jrnl. to Stella xlviii, I have been so tosticated about since my last. 1748 Richardson Clarissa xvii. (1810) V. 181, I want these tostications (thou seest how women and women's words fill my mind) to be over. 1811 Ora & Juliet I. 32 Get thee to bed..and sleep off that odious strong liquor that has tosticated thy senses. 1828 Craven Gloss., Tossicated, tossed, perplexed. Also, drunk. 1881 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Tossicated, harassed; worried,—‘upset’, as by vexation or trouble. |