pregravate

present singular third person pregravates · participle present pregravating · participle past pregravated · past pregravated

1. rareTo bear down; to depress.

   Heavier Bodies pregravate

   1718, Edward Strother, Criticon Febrium, Or, A Critical Essay on Fevers

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   The clog that the body brings with it cannot but pregravate and trouble the soul in all her performances

   1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC

   The clear s Vision of God, which they say is, tota merces, beholding him s face to face, namely, so far as a finite Being (for so our Humane Nature continues still, though glorified) may be capable to apprehend of that Majesty, which is Infinite, in this advanced condition, the Soul (which is here clogg'd, and drossy, and much pregravated by the Body, subject to corruption) shall beatifically see God, as he is, in the full fplendor of his immortal glory;

   1672, “The Crown of Righteousness”, in Θρηνοι̂κος: the House of Mourning, page 603

   Indeed, the aporia shall become pregravated with an new enigma.

   2013, B.G. Bergo, Levinas between Ethics and Politics, page 183

   I think you shouldn't pregravate her .

   2024, Yağmur D. Kızılkoca, Bald Blind Cats