v. [f. L. jugulāt-, ppl. stem of jugulāre to cut the throat of, to slay; f. jugulum: see JUGULAR and -ATE3.]
1. trans. To kill by cutting the throat; to kill, slay, put to death.
1623. Cockeram, Iugulate, to slay or kill.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 46. That were to jugulate, not to purge men.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. conc. Relig., III. vi. 421. They must have been too like the victimes which they jugulated.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor, xxiii. (1862), 55. And then for Death to summon the Pope and jugulate him.
2. fig. To ‘strangle’; spec. to stop the course of (a disease) by a powerful remedy.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 313. It … so compresses the vessels as to jugulate the inflammatory process.
1894. Columbus (O.) Disp., 2 Jan. It is bad policy … to attempt to jugulate advertising.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 123. Misplaced attempts to ‘jugulate’ the disease [pneumonia].
So Jugulation; Jugulator. rare–0.
1623. Cockeram, Iugulation, a cutting of ones throat.
1882. Ogilvie, Jugulator, a cut-throat or murderer.
1887. Syd. Soc. Lex., Jugulation, the sudden arrest of a disease by a powerful remedy.
