emendicate

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verb

To beg.

OriginLatin emendicatus →
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Meanings

verbemendicate (third-person singular simple present emendicates, present participle emendicating, simple past and past participle emendicated)

present singular third person emendicates · participle present emendicating · participle past emendicated · past emendicated

  1. obsoleteTo beg.

    And therefore the Temple was built , and the Arke set therein , in the dayes of Salomon , when there was not an emendicated or borrowed peace , depending upon the courtesie of the neighbour Nations

    1642, Edward Reynolds, An Explication of the Hundreth and Tenth Psalme

Origin

  1. Latinemendicatus
  2. Englishemendicate

From Latin emendicatus, past participle of emendicare (“to obtain by begging”). See mendicate.

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APA

emendicate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emendicate

MLA

“emendicate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emendicate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emendicate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emendicate.

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