▪ I. † ˈtoxicate, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 5 toxicat, 6 tocksicate.
[f. med.L. toxicāt-us, pa. pple. of L. toxicāre to smear with poison: see next.]
Charged or infected with poison; poisoned; poisonous.
| c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. iii. (Cock & Fox) xxx, Flatteraris..With fals mening, and mynd maist toxicate. c 1475 Partenay 1429 The king..With toxicat uenym replete was certain. 1581 J. Studley Seneca's Hercules Œtæus 199 b, So yet my wits be tocksicate, although my feare be gone. |
▪ II. † ˈtoxicate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. toxicāre to poison (in John of Salisbury, c 1150), f. L. toxic-um poison: see toxicum.]
trans. To poison. Hence † ˈtoxicating vbl. n.
| 1635 Heywood Hierarch. viii. 518 Which Feuer shakes him,..And a strange Megrim toxicates his head. 1653 E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. 12 Each morning to bite on Rue, which..secures her against the toxicating of that venomous Basilisk. |