Meanings
verbmasculate (third-person singular simple present masculates, present participle masculating, simple past and past participle masculated)
present singular third person masculates · participle present masculating · participle past masculated · past masculated
- obsoletetransitiveTo make strong.
Great spiders watched his toil with globose eyes, And pined with empty masculated jaws
1878, Meta Orred, Berthold, and Other Poems
Origin
First attested in 1623; either from Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or a back-formation from emasculate.
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masculate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/masculate
MLA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “masculate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/masculate.
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