examinate

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/ɪɡˈzæmɪnət/

noun

One who is subjected to examination.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

examinate1

nounexaminate (plural examinates)

plural examinates

  1. 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

verbexaminate (third-person singular simple present examinates, present participle examinating, simple past and past participle examinated)

present singular third person examinates · participle present examinating · participle past examinated · past examinated

  1. 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)
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    [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

  1. Latinexāminātus
  2. Englishexaminate

From Latin exāminātus, past participle of exāminō. By surface analysis, examine + -ate.

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examinate · verb

Back-formation from examination.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “examinate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/examinate.

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