Websters Dictionary 1828
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Trample
TRAM'PLE, verb transitive
1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matthew 7:6.
2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.
TRAM'PLE, verb intransitive To tread in contempt.
Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.
1. To tread with force and rapidity.
TRAM'PLE, noun The act of treading under foot with contempt.