tossicate

English

Verb

tossicate (third-person singular simple present tossicates, present participle tossicating, simple past and past participle tossicated)

(obsolete) To upset, agitate, or disturb.
- 1834, The New Monthly Magazine, page 349:
  “Sit down on the bed, a lanman,” whispered the director to me; “ they won't disturb a lady, though they'd think little about tossicating the poor.”
- 1851, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Stories of the Irish Peasantry, page 35:
  She'll tossicate yer brains in no time, and be as composed herself as a dove on her nest in a storm.
- 1857, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 298:
  As one of the workmen expressed it, “ the earth was all turned and tossicated about.”
- 1874, Samuel Lover, “The Dublin Fishwoman”, in Bayle Bernard, editor, The Life of Samuel Lover: Selections from unpublished papers and letters, page 33:
  The whiskey is at length sent for, but only for the purpose of being diluted, which when Judy detects, she exclaims, " Oh, if you plase, ma'am, don't put wather to it — the whiskey never harms me, but the water tossicates me sadly — just one glass, if you plase, ma'am; it's as good as five years' life to me."

Anagrams

ascot ties, oscitates