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adorate

adorate verb: synonym of adore.

Verb

adorate (third-person singular simple present adorates, present participle adorating, simple past and past participle adorated)

  1. Synonym of adore.
    • The Maharſhees, holy bands, hail thee, and glorify thy name with adorating praiſes.1787, “The Bhagvat-Geeta”, in Charles Wilkins, transl., The English Review, or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, page 98
    • In the other is depicted the Crucifixion of Christ, who is represented as suffering between the two thieves, while the Maries are adorating below.1866, Charles St. John, Edward J. Wood, Cosmo Innes, Natural History & Sport in Moray, page 237
    Synonyms:
    adore

Examples of adorate in a sentence

  • Five aspects of the cult easily adapt themselves to be measured, as they are treated often enough in the cult inventories: the number of gods adorated,[…].1992, Joost Hazenbos, The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults During the Thirteenth Century B.C.: An Appraisal of the Hittite Cult...
  • In ancient times, and in modern times in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime, people were required, even unwillingly to adorate the main deity of a state religion as the government described it.2005, Gary Clifford Gibson, Creation & Cosmos; the Literal Values of Genesis, page 155:

Synonyms of adorate

Forms of adorate

third-person singular presentadorates
present participleadorating
past participleadorated
pastadorated

Origin of adorate

Learned borrowing from Latin adōrāt-, past participial stem of adōrō.

Questions about adorate

What does adorate mean?
Adorate means synonym of adore.
How do you use adorate in a sentence?
Five aspects of the cult easily adapt themselves to be measured, as they are treated often enough in the cult inventories: the number of gods adorated,[…].
What part of speech is adorate?
Adorate is a verb.
What is the past tense of adorate?
The past tense of adorate is adorated.

Words near adorate in the dictionary

  1. adoral
  2. adorally
  3. adorant
  4. Adorantes
  5. adorasexy
  6. adorate
  7. adorated
  8. adorates
  9. adorating
  10. adoration
  11. adorational

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