pumicate

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/ˈpjuːmɪkeɪt/

verb

To make smooth with pumice.

OriginLatin pumicatus →
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Meanings

verbpumicate (third-person singular simple present pumicates, present participle pumicating, simple past and past participle pumicated)

present singular third person pumicates · participle present pumicating · participle past pumicated · past pumicated

  1. transitiveTo make smooth with pumice.

    It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards.

    1925, Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Fruitfulness, page 8

Origin

  1. Latinpumicatus
  2. Englishpumicate

From Latin pumicatus, past participle of pumicare (“to pumicate”), from pumex. See pumice.

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APA

pumicate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pumicate

MLA

“pumicate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pumicate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pumicate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pumicate.

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