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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1677
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(Sugillate,) Suggilate, v. [e.m.E. sugillate (1647), L. sūgillāre to beat black and blue.] tr. To defame, revile. — 1677 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 157.
It was the president's cue to suggilate the bishops and to cut Commissary Monro … short of all the benefit he could
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