subs. (old: now mainly conventional).—1.—Defloration; (2) copulation; and (3) masturbation. As verb = (1) to violate; (2) to copulate; and (3) TO FRIG (q.v.). Hence ABUSER = (1) a seducer, a ravisher; (2) a MUTTON-MONGER (q.v.); and (3) a masturbator.
1553. LYNDESAY, Monarchie, i. 1236.
| Quhow men and wemen schamefullye | |
| ABUSIT thame selfis vnnaturallye. |
1580. SIDNEY, Arcadia, II. Was it not enough for him to have deceived me, and through the deceit ABUSED me, and after the ABUSE forsaken me?
1608. FLETCHER, The Faithful Shepherdess, I. 230.
| Retire a while | |
| Behind this Bush, till we have known that vile | |
| ABUSER of young Maidens. |
1611. Bible, Judges xix. 25. And ABUSED her all the night until the morning. Ibid., 1 Cor. vi. 9. Nor adulterers … nor ABUSERS of themselves with mankind.
1751. Chambers’ Cyclopædia, s.v. ABUSE. Self-ABUSE is a phrase used by some late writers for the crime of self-pollution.
1767. FORDYCE, Sermons to Young Women, I. i. 9. He that ABUSES you dishonours his mother.
