Meaning of aucupate | Babel Free

Definitions

To hunt, to seek with vigilance.

obsolete

Examples

“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”

“Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo, To aucupate great favors from Apollo.”

“Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist.”

CEFR level