insimulate

English

Etymology

From Latin insimulatus, past participle of insimulare (“to accuse”).

Verb

insimulate (third-person singular simple present insimulates, present participle insimulating, simple past and past participle insimulated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To accuse.
   • 1620 June 21 (Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “Sermon XL. Preached at Lincoln’s Inn, upon Trinity Sunday, 1620.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 218:

     Bring a petition to any earthly prince, and say to him, Evigila, and surge, Would your majesty would awake, and read this petition, and so insimulate him of a former drowsiness in his government; say unto him, Eripe manum, Pull thy hand out of thy bosom, and execute justice, and so insimulate him of a former manacling and slumbering of the laws; say unto him, We are become as old shoes, and as off-scourings, and so insimulate him of a diminution, and dis-estimation fallen upon the nation by him, what prince would not (and justly) conceive an indignation against such a petitioner?

Further reading

• “insimulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

īnsimulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īnsimulātus