ETYMOLOGY
irregular, from Latin lascivire, after verbs ending in -iate
EXAMPLE 1
“…A kemb’d Oration will cost both sweate, and the rubbing of the braine. And kemb’d I wish it, not frizzled, nor curl’d. Divinity should not lasciuiate, Vn-wormewooded jests I like well; but they are fitter for the Tauerne, then the Majesty of a Temple. Christ taught the People with Authoritie. Gravitie becomes the Pulpit. Demosthenes confest he became an Orator, by spending more Oyle then Wine…”
From: Resolves, a Duple Century
By Owen Felltham, 1628
EXAMPLE 2
“…But by his smile the Prophet means that the people would be reduced to such straits, that they might not lasciviate, as they had done, in their superstitions; for while the Israelites enjoyed prosperity, they thought everything lawful for them; hence their security, and hence their contempt of the word of the Lord…”
From: Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets.
By John Calvin.
Translation from the Original Latin by the Rev. John Owen, 1846
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