spatiate

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/ˈspeɪʃi.eɪt/

verb

To rove or ramble.

OriginLatin spatiātus →
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Meanings

verbspatiate (third-person singular simple present spatiates, present participle spatiating, simple past and past participle spatiated)

present singular third person spatiates · participle present spatiating · participle past spatiated · past spatiated

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo rove or ramble.

    […] spatiating, at their leisure, in shady walks and porticos […]

    1759, Richard Hurd, Moral and Political Dialogues
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    For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

    My spirit feels her freedom, shakes her wings, / Exults and spatiates o'er a thousand scenes[…]

    c. 1713, Isaac Watts, A Hymn of Praise for Recovery

Origin

  1. Latinspatiātus
  2. Englishspatiate

From Latin spatiātus, past participle of spatior (“walk around, spread out”), from spatium (“space, room”). Compare Italian spaziare, German spazieren.

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Chicago

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