Further Antedating of "Menstruate"

[Fred Shapiro]

menstruate, v. (OED3, 2., 1795)

1713 William Cockburn _The symptoms, nature, cause, and cure of a
gonorrhoea_ 93 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  The _Fluor Albus_
is easy to be known in Time of Menstruating.

Fred Shapiro


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
  Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press,
Yale Law School                             forthcoming
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------