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verminate, v. rare.|ˈvɜːmɪneɪt|
[f. L. vermināt- ppl. stem of vermināre to have worms or griping pains, f. vermis worm. Cf. L. vermina griping pains caused by worms, stomach-ache.]
1. intr. To breed or produce parasitic vermin.
1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 263 He having taken extraordinary care and pains to observe, that always on the Flesh, before it did Verminate, there sate Flies of the self same kind with those that were afterwards produc'd thence. 1721Bailey, To Verminate, to breed Worms. 1912D. Crawford Thinking Black xxii. 441 Here, then, we see them [sc. people] crowding and verminating in their filth.
†2. Path. (See quot.) Obs.—0
1721Bailey, To Verminate (among Physicians), to have a griping or wringing in the Belly; to..void Worms.
Hence ˈverminating vbl. n. (used attrib.) and ppl. a.
1720S. Parker Bibliotheca Biblia I. 152 The Seed of the Serpent, and its Verminating Principle. 1856G. H. Boker Leonor de Guzman i. i, Out, thou flea-bitten, verminating rogue! 1912D. Crawford Thinking Black vi. 97 Their average beehive hut is a verminating hole, a den of disease. |