v. rare. [f. L. vermināt- ppl. stem of vermināre to have worms or griping pains, f. vermis worm. Cf. L. vermina griping pains caused by worms, stomach-ache.]
1. intr. To breed or produce parasitic vermin.
1693. Sir T. P. Blount, Nat. Hist., 263. He having taken extraordinary care and pains to observe, that always on the Flesh, before it did Verminate, there sate Flies of the self same kind with those that were afterwards produc’d thence.
1721. Bailey, To Verminate, to breed Worms.
1912. D. Crawford, Thinking Black, xxii. 441. Here, then, we see them [sc. people] crowding and verminating in their filth.
† 2. Path. (See quot.) Obs.–0
1721. Bailey, To Verminate (among Physicians), to have a griping or wringing in the Belly; to … void Worms.
Hence Verminating vbl. sb. (used attrib.) and ppl. a.
1720. S. Parker, Bibliotheca Biblia, I. 152. The Seed of the Serpent, and its Verminating Principle.
1856. Boker, Leonor de Guzman, I. i. Out, thou flea-bitten, verminating rogue!
1912. D. Crawford, Thinking Black, vi. 97. Their average beehive hut is a verminating hole, a den of disease.
