mastuprate

English

Etymology

From Renaissance or New Latin mastuprari, an alternation of classical Latin masturbārī influenced by stuprō (“defile”). See also mastupration. Attested in English from the late 16th century.

Verb

mastuprate (third-person singular simple present mastuprates, present participle mastuprating, simple past and past participle mastuprated)

1. (rare, obsolete) masturbate
   • c. 1751, Dr. John Rae (journal), quoted in: Allen Edwardes (1966), The Rape of India: A Biography of Robert Clive and a Sexual History of the Conquest of Hindustan, p. 93:

     His Black Wench reports him Impotent for Coitus per Vaginam, yet hath seen him mastuprate on occasion;

Related terms

• mastupration
• mastuprator

References

• “mastuprate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2001.