Now only poet. Also 5 violatt, 6 -at, -ait, 6 vyolate, Sc. weolait. [ad. L. violāt-us, pa. pple. of violāre: see next.]
1. Characterized by impurity or defilement.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 1557. Now, lord of lordes, to þi blyssyd name sanctificatt, most mekely my feyth I recummend. Pott don þe pryd of mamentes violatt!
1513. Douglas, Æneid, V. i. 12. For weill wist Eneas In violait [L. polluto] luif … quhat thingis mycht be controvit By wemen in fury rage that stranglie lovit.
1594. Warres Cyrus, C ij. The prince … bare my daughter thence with violate hands Vnto his pallace.
1856. Mrs. H. King, Disciples, Agesilao Milano (1873), 300. Take home the lesson to thee,… Who makest of this lovely land, God’s garden, A nation violate, corrupt, accurst.
2. As pa. pple. Violated, in various senses of the verb; subjected to violation or injury.
1503. Hawes, Examp. Virt., vii. 112. Mayden and moder yet not vyolate.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 321. The peace … was, by the kynge, vyolate and broken.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 317. Wherwith … no parte of the maiestie of a kyng is vyolate.
1590. H. Barrow, Brief Discoverie, 4. That heauenly patterne left by the Apostles was soone violate.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. ii. § 5 (1622), 203. If Iustice may be violate, for any cause at all.
1675. Marvell, Corr., Wks. (Grosart), II. 479. It was declared and resolved to be an undouted ancient standing order, not to be violate.
1733. W. Crawford, Infidelity (1836), 159. The law of innocency … being violate by man’s apostacy.
1847. Tennyson, Princ., VI. 44. And now, O maids, behold our sanctuary Is violate, our laws broken.
b. = VIOLATED ppl. a.
1655. Theophania, 169. My Fathers blood, Agnesias languishing griefs, my violate marriage,… raised several passions.
