properate

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verb

To hasten or press forward.

OriginLatin properatus →
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Meanings

verbproperate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)

present singular third person properates · participle present properating · participle past properated · past properated

  1. obsoleteTo hasten or press forward.

    Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy.

    1774, Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times
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    For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.

    1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors

    That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.

    1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton

Origin

  1. Latinproperatus
  2. Englishproperate

From Latin properatus, past participle of properare (“to hasten”).

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Chicago

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