"lasciviate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: lasciviates [present, singular, third-person], lasciviating [participle, present], lasciviated [participle, past], lasciviated [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} lasciviate (third-person singular simple present lasciviates, present participle lasciviating, simple past and past participle lasciviated)
  1. To give oneself to lasciviousness; to lust (over).
    Sense id: en-lasciviate-en-verb-lrETAh4W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Glen W. Gadberry, Arnolt Bronnen and the Revolt of Youth, page 67:",
          "text": "Fools be those, who let themselves lasciviate in foul sensuality.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Jonathan Reynolds, Geniuses, page 18:",
          "text": "She is wholly, infuriatingly desirable, and I would like nothing more from this bleak jungle experience than to lasciviate her head to toe with wet, drenching mouthplay.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Dialogue - Volume 21, page 170:",
          "text": "They'd lust and lasciviate and tickle themselves any old time for fun and pleasure\" (p. 44).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ellen Wood, Elisabeth Jay, East Lynne, page xxxiii:",
          "text": "The process by which the sexually symbolic is swiftly overwhelmed by Wood's inclination to lasciviate over an inventory of the ideal interior is most visible in the episode describing Isabel's return as governess:",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        },
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          "ref": "1982, Jonathan Reynolds, Geniuses, page 18:",
          "text": "She is wholly, infuriatingly desirable, and I would like nothing more from this bleak jungle experience than to lasciviate her head to toe with wet, drenching mouthplay.",
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