ingeminate

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/ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.neɪt//ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/

verb

To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)

present singular third person ingeminates · participle present ingeminating · participle past ingeminated · past ingeminated

  1. transitiveTo say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.

    we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]

    1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II
adjectiveingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)

comparative more ingeminate · superlative most ingeminate

  1. redoubled

    It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement

    1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old

Synonyms & antonyms

verbto say, state, or perform again

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latiningeminō“repeat, reiterate”
  2. Englishingeminate

Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (“repeat, reiterate”).

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Translations

Bulgarian повтарям
  • повтарям (povtarjam)to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition
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Chicago

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