toxicare

toxicare [LL] 1 to endow (esp. weapon) with poison, apply poison to, envenom. b (p. ppl. as adj.) that contains or is laden with poison, poisonous, venomous, toxic (also fig.). habebat sicam ‥ ~atam, ut si ferri vulnus minus ad mortem regis sufficeret, peste juvaretur veneni Bede HE II 9; cum pugione ~ato quem sub femore occuluerat W. Malm. GR IV 388 p. 458; serpentem ~are nonne dementia est? J. Sal. Pol. 403D; s1272 extracto quodam cutello ~ato ‥ dedit ei quatuor vulnera ‥ fere mortalia Leg. Ant. Lond. 156.  b 1012 (12c) aurea ‥ secula haud hominum ~atis infecta nequitiis Ch. Abingd. 136; que severitas ‥ linguas ~atas detrahentium efficaciores reddidit ad nocendum J. Sal. Thom. 21; oriens ‥ habeat ~atas opulentias suas Gir. TH I 37; ex membris ‥ ~atum virus cepit effluere Samson Mir. Edm. 201; audivit Jason quod ‥ per ~ate serpentis vigilias sibi viandum esset ad aureum vellus Map NC IV 4 f. 47. 2 to use poison on, to injure or kill with poison; b (fig.). s1189 Assen ‥ in veste imperiali ~atus est Diceto YH 60; [rex Johannes] libenter potavit et statim ~atus est Eul. Hist. III 110; s1399 plures ‥ poculis veneno per Cestrences infestis perierunt ~ati Ad. Usk 26; 1414 W. B. ‥ stercora latrine sue ‥ ad et super parietes cujusdam domus ‥ posuit ad toxigandum diversos homines ibidem ‥ transeuntes Proc. J. P. 299.  b quotiens ‥ Pedo vilis in aure susurrat / toxicat interius cordis et oris opus J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 1708; 1188 mihi domini vestri gratiam ‥ ~avit lingue meretricantis adulatio P. Blois Ep. 20. 72B; 1381 [Lollardi] doctrinam schismatis / ‥ / docent que cunctos toxicat Pol. Poems I 234.