flagrate

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/fləˈɡɹeɪt/

verb

To burn.

OriginLatin flagrātus →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

verbflagrate (third-person singular simple present flagrates, present participle flagrating, simple past and past participle flagrated)

present singular third person flagrates · participle present flagrating · participle past flagrated · past flagrated

  1. obsoleteTo burn.

    This Lamp moreover stands on the Foot of an Eagle or Hawk, thereby, says Kircher, to represent how Typhon’s destructive and flagrating Power lying hid in the Sun, was made more temperate by a Humour which Silenus, the Page of the aforesaid Bacchus, had the Command of

    1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming

Origin

  1. Latinflagrātus
  2. Englishflagrate

First attested in 1756; borrowed from Latin flagrātus, perfect passive participle of flagrō (“to burn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

flagrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagrate

MLA

“flagrate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagrate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flagrate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagrate.

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