aggrate

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verb

To gratify, cause pleasure to.

OriginItalian aggradare /aggratare ← Latin aggrātāre →
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Meanings

verbaggrate (third-person singular simple present aggrates, present participle aggrating, simple past and past participle aggrated)

present singular third person aggrates · participle present aggrating · participle past aggrated · past aggrated

  1. obsoleteTo gratify, cause pleasure to.

    And euery of them stroue, with most delights, / Him to aggrate, and greatest pleasures shew […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinaggrātāre
  2. Italianaggradare /aggratare
  3. Englishaggrate

From Italian aggradare /aggratare, from Latin aggrātāre.

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