ambiate

present singular third person ambiates · participle present ambiating · participle past ambiated · past ambiated

1. obsoletetransitiveTo ambition; to covet; to seek after ambitiously or eagerly.First known use 17th–19th c.

   During the last year, however, few have ambiated that office ; […]

   1888, Henry Cloete, “Letter from her Majesty's Commissioner to the Natal Territory. Pietermaritzburg, 4th July, 1848”, in John Bird, compiler, The Annals of Natal: 1495 to 1845, volume II, P. Davis & Sons, page 207

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   'Tis a great piece of the corruption of our depraved nature, to ambiate things moſt prohibited : […]

   1649, Josiah Shute, “The Sixteenth Sermon”, in Sarah and Hagar: or, Genesis the ſixteenth Chapter opened, in XIX Sermons, London: […] J. L. and Humphrey Moſely, page 166

   You few that Wiſdom above Treaſure, Prize, And Ambiate the Title of the wiſe, Come hither, here are Patterns that Surmount, Whoſe Travels will Conduct you to the Fount ; […]

   1663, Edward Sparke, “Poem 8: On the Epiphany”, in Θυσιαστήριον Vel Scintilla-altaris. Or Primitive Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England, London: […] R. Wood, for H. Brome, page 162

   There is no being ſecure, but by walking in the low and ſafe Way of Humility, without ambiating Honours and Dignities.

   1769, Pacificus Baker, “Wednesday: In the ſecond Week of Lent”, in A Lenten Monitor, to Christians, 3rd edition, London, page 117