"aucupate" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin aucupātus",
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin aucupātus.",
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      "form": "aucupates",
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      "form": "aucupating",
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      "form": "aucupated",
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      "form": "aucupated",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven",
          "text": "Now this is the howre, now this the half, now this is the Quarter, the Minute, the second, the third, the fourth, and so Fourth to the Tenth, that I do aucupate, or do gape after the slowe comming of my knave-booting Rascalls to Olympus with their venaisons alive",
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          "ref": "1630, John Taylor, Workes",
          "text": "Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo, To aucupate great favors from Apollo.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, The Westminster Review, volume 15, page 62",
          "text": "Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist.",
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        "To hunt, to seek with vigilance."
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        "(obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance."
      ],
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːkjʊpeɪt"
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  "word": "aucupate"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin aucupātus.",
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          "ref": "1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven",
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        "To hunt, to seek with vigilance."
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