spiflicate

Definitions

verb transitive To confound, silence or dumbfound - 1785 Francis Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
verb transitive, Provincial To beat severely - 1847 James Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words
verb transitive, slang To stifle, suffocate, kill.
verb transitive To ruin, destroy.

Apparently made up to resemble a word of Latin origin.

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Marry Asika or spiflicate, which mean, Major, that Jeekie spiflicate too, and, "he added, shaking his white head sadly," he no like _that_.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890
Sometimes they chop off nut, sometimes they spiflicate in gold tub, sometimes priest-man make hole in what white doctor call _diagram_ -- and shake hands with heart.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890
Aylward great villain, serve him jolly well right if Asika spiflicate him, that not Jeekie's fault.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890
"Now, spiflicate me!" spoke the skipper, relieving the man, "the ruffian cly you! who did this?"

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
P'raps he's agoin 'to spiflicate me, in consikence o' my impidence.

Jarwin and Cuffy 1859
"My dear poy," said Grossensteck, "you know as much of peeziness as a child unporne, and I tell you it's the same efferywhere -- in groceries, in hardware, in the alkali trade, in effery branch of industry, the pig operators stand shoulder to shoulder to spiflicate the little fellers like you.

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907
But some day Hi'll pizen 'em, sir, or spiflicate 'em in their sleep, the hopportunity for which is the honly pleasure in life Hi 'as to look forward to, sir. "

At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear Kirk Munroe 1890