verb. (old).—To GROPE (q.v.); to deflower; ‘to explore point by point.’—B. E. (c. 1696).
1485. MALLORY, Morte d’Arthur, x. civ. And anone he RANSAKYED him.
1602. SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2.
| But I would have the soil of her fair rape | |
| Wip’d off, in honourable keeping her, | |
| What treason were it to the RANSACK’D queen. |
1605. SYLVESTER, Du Bartas, i. 5.
| With sacrilegious Tools we rudely rend-her, | |
| And RANSACK deeply in her bosom tender. |
