Aucupate

Quick meaning: Aucupate is a verb meaning (obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance.

Meaning

(obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance.

Example Sentences

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.

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

Word Forms

• aucupates
• aucupating
• aucupated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hunt, outhunt, still-hunt, umbecast, look out, ambuscade.

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