Meanings
present singular third person ingeminates · participle present ingeminating · participle past ingeminated · past ingeminated
- 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
comparative more ingeminate · superlative most ingeminate
- 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latiningeminō“repeat, reiterate”
- Englishingeminate
Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (“repeat, reiterate”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian повтарям
- повтарям (povtarjam)to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition
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