Meanings
examinate1
plural examinates
- obsoleteOne who is subjected to examination.
To this the tormentors[…]fastened the armes and feet of the poor examinate or condemned person to be tortured.
1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC
examinate2
present singular third person examinates · participle present examinating · participle past examinated · past examinated
- nonstandardtransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo examine.
Since some month both researchers are examinating a similar object of Ancient Egypt - which seems to be much more perfect from the technical standpoint.
1998 November 21, Zortek, “Antichi aeroplani ?”, in it.discussioni.misteri (Usenet)2 more examples
[T]he dilemma caused by the combination of this human-scorning penalty with the condemned's right to get his case examinated and reviewed has actually made particularly of the US-DP one of the cruelest penalties of the world.
2001 January 9, Jürgen, “The Texas Escapes and the Rule of Three”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet)Then you examinate the code, and you can see the "code created by form designer" contains a number of RecourceManager statements getting the values from the resource file by the "key".
2006 January 14, Lau Lei Cheong, “About the Language property”, in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework (Usenet)
Origin
examinate · noun
- Latinexāminātus
- Englishexaminate
From Latin exāminātus, past participle of exāminō. By surface analysis, examine + -ate.
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