aucupates

Verb

aucupate (third-person singular simple present aucupates, present participle aucupating, simple past and past participle aucupated)

1. (obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance.
   • Now this is the howre, now this the half, now this is the Quarter, the Minute, the second, the third, the fourth, and so Fourth to the Tenth, that I do aucupate, or do gape after the slowe comming of my knave-booting Rascalls to Olympus with their venaisons alive1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven