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ablegate

/ˈæb.lə.ɡeɪt/

ablegate verb: to send abroad.

Verb

ablegate (third-person singular simple present ablegates, present participle ablegating, simple past and past participle ablegated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To send abroad.
    • Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert.c. 1660, R. Carpenter, Pragmatical Jesuit 64
    • The evil which you imav gine, therefore, is so far from being really felt, that we are now sufferers by the bad policy of our ancestors, in ablegating their poor to till the wilds of America; and maintaining them there at an enormous expence1795, Elisa Powell, Elisa Powell, or Trials of sensibility

Noun

ablegate (plural ablegates)

  1. (obsolete) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
  2. (historical, obsolete) An elected representative of a Hungarian royal free city, charged to be a speaker at the Diet of Hungary and to express the opinion of the city.

Forms of ablegate

Verb
third-person singular presentablegates
present participleablegating
past participleablegated
pastablegated
Noun
pluralablegates

Origin of ablegate

Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“to send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“to dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.

Questions about ablegate

What does ablegate mean?
Ablegate means to send abroad.
What part of speech is ablegate?
Ablegate can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce ablegate?
Ablegate is pronounced /ˈæb.lə.ɡeɪt/.
What is the past tense of ablegate?
The past tense of ablegate is ablegated.

Words near ablegate in the dictionary

  1. ablebodied
  2. ablecentrism
  3. abled
  4. abledness
  5. ableds
  6. ablegate
  7. ablegated
  8. ablegates
  9. ablegating
  10. ablegation
  11. ablegations

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