Meanings
comparative more invulnerate · superlative most invulnerate
- obsoleteInvulnerable or unscathed.
For horns (like horny callouses) are found / to grow on sculls that have receiv'd a wound, / are crackt, and broken; not at all on those / that are invulnerate and free from blows.
1721, Samuel Butler, Satire upon marriage
Origin
- Latininvulnerātus“unwounded”
- Englishinvulnerate
First attested in 1680; borrowed from Latin invulnerātus (“unwounded”), from in- (“not”) + vulnerātus see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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