Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteImbued with humanity.
But of your saying it followeth, that the bread is humanate or incarnate[…]
c. 1551, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gadiner
Origin
- Late Latinhūmanātus
- Englishhumanate
First attested in 1551; borrowed from Late Latin hūmanātus, from hūmanus + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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