Meanings
verbcicurate (third-person singular simple present cicurates, present participle cicurating, simple past and past participle cicurated)
present singular third person cicurates · participle present cicurating · participle past cicurated · past cicurated
- obsoletetransitiveTo tame, domesticate.
even after carnal conversion, poisons may yet retain some portion of their natures; yet are they so refracted, cicurated, and subdued
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latincicurare“to tame”
- Englishcicurate
From Latin cicurare (“to tame”), from cicur (“tame”).
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