[f. prec. sb.]
a. trans. To pour like a cataract, to pour copiously (nonce-use). b. intr. To fall in a cataract.
1796. Coleridge, Lett., in Biogr. Lit., App. (1847), II. 370. The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on me.
1832. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXII. 125. No river should cataract larger than the Clyde.
1844. E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross (1845), I. 285. The whole body of the Nile precipitates itself…, cataracting very respectably.
