INASPERATE

Daily Word Quiz
 
AMPLEX
a) to cut off, to amputate
b) to wash, to cleanse
c) to embrace, to clasp
d) to heed, to care for
 
Answer below.
  
Today's Featured Word
INASPERATE
 
VERB
1. to provoke to cruelty or bitterness; to exasperate, to embitter
...1599 obs. rare
2. to exacerbate suffering ...a1639 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from in- + Latin asperare to make rough or fierce,
after exasperate
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1599 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...As on the other side their doubt of farther inasperating
the Turk in his Crueltie against them..."
From: Europae Speculum
Or, A View or Survey of the State of Religion
in the Western Parts of the World
By: Edwin Sandys, 1599
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
AMPLEX
c) to embrace, to clasp ...1543 obs.

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