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"ref": "1987 [1582], George Whetstone, edited by Diana Shklanka, An Heptameron of Civill Discourses, Garland Publishing, Inc., page 144:",
"text": "[…] where vaine glorious Ixion Proclaymed, that he was the Minion of Juno, and had Acteoned Jupiter: for which arrogancie, Jupiter threw him to Hell, with this pictured vengeaunce.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:",
"text": "Zuc. […] was I not a handſome fellow from my foote to my feather, had I not wit, nay, which is more, was I not a Don. and didſt thou Acteon me, did I not make thee a Lady.\nHerc. And did ſhe not make you a more worſhipfull thing, a Cuckold.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1620, Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving, London, page 35:",
"text": "There are of opinion that there is in Marriage an ineuitable desteny, not to be auoided which is either to be Acteond [OED actæoned] or not to be […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cuckold."
],
"links": [
[
"cuckold",
"cuckold#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, slang, transitive, rare) To cuckold."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ækˈtiːən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ækˈtiːɒn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ækˈteɪən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ækˈteɪɒn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈæktɪən/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Acteon"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Antonio Tempesta"
],
"word": "Actaeon"
}
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