Obs. [f. STRUMPET sb.]
1. trans. To bring to the condition of a strumpet.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., II. ii. 146. For if we two be one, and thou play false, I doe digest the poison of thy flesh, Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
1608. Heywood, Lucrece, V. i. (1630), H 4. And by a stranger I am strumpeted, Rauisht, inforc’d.
1640. S. Harding, Sicily & Naples, II. v. 30. Charintha’s strumpetted; her name is rank’t I’ th vulgar breath, ’mongst common prostitutes.
1687. Settle, Refl. Dryden, 41. The King is aflicted for hearing his beloved Queen is strumpeted.
fig. a. 1631. Donne, Sat., V. 69. Oh, ne’r may Faire lawes white reverend name be strumpeted, To warrant thefts.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, II. xxiii. (ed. 8), 229. Hee strumpets all his Businesse, that does disclose his secrets.
2. To repute as a strumpet; to debase (a woman’s fame, name, virtue) to that of a strumpet.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., lxvi. 6. And maiden vertue rudely strumpeted.
1632. Massinger, Maid of Hon., III. iii. That proud man, that was Deny’d the honour of your bed, yet durst With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.
1633. Ford, Broken Heart, IV. ii. H 2 b. To all memory, Penthea’s, poore Penthea’s name is strumpeted.
† 3. intr. To strumpet it, to play the strumpet.
1625. Sanderson, Serm. (1674), I. 119. When that God … shall see that people … to break the Covenant or Wedlock with him, and to strumpet it with the daughters and Idols of Moab.
Hence Strumpeting vbl. sb.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Mechation … fornication, Whoredom, strumpeting.
a. 1832. Bentham, Mem. & Corr., Wks. 1843, X. 41. His life was one of gaming, drinking, and strumpeting.
