To treat with or introduce arsenic or arsenic compounds into something.
From arsenic + the verb-forming suffix -ate. This technical verb emerged in chemistry and agriculture contexts, similar to 'carbonate' or 'nitrate.'
The verb 'to arseniate' existed in agricultural manuals as routine instruction—the casual way farmers were told to poison their fields shows how normalized toxic chemistry had become before anyone questioned safety.
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