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.
| 1623 Cockeram, Iugulate, to slay or kill. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 46 That were to jugulate, not to purge men. 1660 tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. vi. 421 They must have been too like the victimes which they jugulated. 1834–43 Southey 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.
| 1876 Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 313 It..so compresses the vessels as to jugulate the inflammatory process. 1894 Columbus (O.) Disp. 2 Jan., It is bad policy..to attempt to jugulate advertising. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 123 Misplaced attempts to ‘jugulate’ the disease [pneumonia]. |
So juguˈlation; ˈjugulator. rare—0.
| 1623 Cockeram, Iugulation, a cutting of ones throat. 1882 Ogilvie, Jugulator, a cut-throat or murderer. 1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., Jugulation, the sudden arrest of a disease by a powerful remedy. |