Meanings
- rareForming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.
1 more example
[A]fter that the land doth trent Westward, as may be suspected by the want of ice, that the land, being farre remote to the North or West, the Sea doth keepe it selfe from frigitating by its continuall chafing and adjectating, as we see by the iles of Farre, Shetland, and Orkney, standing in and neere the same parallell with our frozen Fretum Hudson, where no Snow will lie for any time in Winter.
“frigitate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Origin
- Classical Latinnōbilitō
- Latin-itāt-
- English-itate
From Latin -itāt-, past participial stem of -itō. On the model of e.g. Classical Latin nōbilitō and found in borrowings e.g. premeditate, debilitate, agitate.
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