v. Obs. rare. [erroneously ad. L. lascīvīre, after verbs in -iate: see -ATE3.] intr. To sport wantonly; to indulge in unseemly jesting.
1627–77. Feltham, Resolves, I. xx. 36. Divinity should not lasciviate [ed. 1709 has be wanton]…. Gravity becomes the pulpit.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1721. in Bailey.
Hence Lasciviating ppl. a.
1660. Charac. Italy, To Rdr. A iij. He will … say these Whimsies are but Ingenii lascivientis flosculi, the superfluous Excrescencies of lasciviating wit.
