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masturbate, v.|ˈmæstɜːbeɪt| [f. L. masturbāt-, ppl. stem of masturbārī, of obscure origin: according to Brugmann for *mastiturbārī f. *mazdo- (cf. Gr. µέζεα pl.) virile member + turba disturbance. An old conjecture regarded the word as f. manu-s hand + stuprāre to defile; hence the etymologizing forms manustupration, mastuprate, -ation, used by some Eng. writers.] intr. To produce an orgasm by stimulation of the genitals, not by sexual intercourse; trans., to cause (another person) to have an orgasm by stimulation of his or her genitals. Also refl. and fig.
1857Acton Reprod. Organs 69 note, He had masturbated himself. c1880H. Varley Lect. Men (1884) 30 The patients..have at last acknowledged that they still masturbated. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record vi. 125 A bankclerk has to masturbate his mind all day: when he comes home he has no strength to mount the muse. 1964H. Montgomery Hyde Hist. Pornography i. 19 He [sc. Pepys] finished the book the same evening, and we now know that it excited him to masturbate. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers (1970) i. 36 She wanted to see me masturbate for the last time. 1968M. Courtenay Sexual Discord in Marriage vi. 61 He..had masturbated with heterosexual fantasies. 1970B. W. Aldiss Hand-Reared Boy 62 During this miserable period I masturbated myself for consolation, and Ann also did it to me. 1974Daily Tel. 3 Oct. 3/1 Clients at the parlour..paid {pstlg}15-plus to be masturbated by young women in various stages of undress. Hence masturˈbatic a., caused by masturbation; ˈmasturbator, one who practises masturbation; masturˈbatorily adv.; ˈmasturbatory a., pertaining to masturbation.
1855Dunglison Med. Lex., Masturbator, Mastuprator. 1864tr. Casper's Handbk. Forensic Med. (N. Syd. Soc.) III. 334 Masturbatory pæderastia. 1868Index Expurgatorius of Martial 90 Titius was a masturbator. 1874Bucknill & Tuke Psych. Med. (ed. 3) 318 Masturbatic Insanity. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 692 In masturbators there is more excess than in any other persons. Ibid. VIII. 149. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers I. 100 The tendency to anxiety in masturbators. 1932Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 Dec. 2201/2 Mechanical masturbators. 1948A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male ii. v. 170 Many pre-adolescents take a good many years to discover masturbatory techniques. 1960Spectator 3 June 809 The prose background to his [sc. Swinburne's] violent, cerebral, masturbatory poetry. 1963Listener 24 Jan. 163/2 To be sexually attractive was one thing, but to become a sexual fetish was another. Marilyn Monroe became a pair of lips, a walk, a set of numbers, 38-24-36. The artificiality of the unresolved tension I have described finds a parallel here in this ersatz, masturbatory sex stimulus. 1967B. Bross Pleasures of Love vii. 98 These magazines are being bought by masturbators, male ones and lesbians. 1973S. Fisher Female Orgasm xii. 338 If a woman wants to escape restriction and explore the new she is particularly positive toward masturbatory gratification. 1973M. Seymour-Smith Guide Mod. World Lit. 225 One senses Williams hanging masturbatorily over his nasty, midcult images of evil. |