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abligated

abligated is the simple past and past participle of abligate.

Meaning of abligate

Verb

abligate (third-person singular simple present abligates, present participle abligating, simple past and past participle abligated)

  1. (obsolete outside veterinary medicine) To tie up, especially a body part.
    • In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the cecal pouches, the distal end of a cecal pouch of fourteen chickens, three to four months old, was surgically united to the small intestine and the intestine abligated just posterior to the union […]1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226

Questions about abligated

What is abligated the simple past and past participle of?
Abligated is the simple past and past participle of abligate.

Words near abligated in the dictionary

  1. ablet
  2. ablets
  3. ablewackets
  4. ablewhackets
  5. abligate
  6. abligated
  7. abligates
  8. abligating
  9. abligation
  10. abligurition
  11. abline

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