ablaqueate

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verb

To lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.

OriginLatin ablaqueātus →
First used Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18ᵗʰ century.Scrabble 21
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Meanings

verbablaqueate (third-person singular simple present ablaqueates, present participle ablaqueating, simple past and past participle ablaqueated)

present singular third person ablaqueates · participle present ablaqueating · participle past ablaqueated · past ablaqueated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.First known use Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18ᵗʰ century.

    After the autumnal equinox they were to be ablaqueated like the vines. Every third year they were to be dunged, and after some years (generally the eighth) to be pruned; for there was an old saying, to wit, eum qui aret olivetum rogare fructum; qui stercoret exorare; qui caedat cogere.

    1847, Thomas Keightley, The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil

Origin

  1. Latinablaqueātus“loosened, dug up”
  2. Englishablaqueate

Learned borrowing from Latin ablaqueātus (“loosened, dug up”), past participle of ablaqueō (“to disentangle”), formed from ab- + laqueō (“noose”).

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Translations

Portuguese ablaquear
  • ablaquearto lay bare the roots of a tree
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Chicago

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