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abligates

abligates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 abligates

What is abligates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Abligates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abligate.

Words near abligates in the dictionary

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

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