indubitate

Meanings

verbindubitate (third-person singular simple present indubitates, present participle indubitating, simple past and past participle indubitated)

present singular third person indubitates · participle present indubitating · participle past indubitated · past indubitated

obsoleteTo bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted.
to conceal, or indubitate, his existency
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

adjectiveindubitate (comparative more indubitate, superlative most indubitate)

Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain.
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On the other side, if he stood upon his own title of the house of Lancaster, inherent in his person, he knew it was a title condemned by parliament, and generally prejudged in the common opinion of the realm, and that it tended directly to the disinherison of the line of York, held then the indubitate heirs of the crown.
1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII

From Latin indubitatus, past participle of indubitare; prefix in- (“in”) + dubitare (“to doubt”).

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