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attediate

attediate verb: to be tedious to; to exhaust.

Verb

attediate (third-person singular simple present attediates, present participle attediating, simple past and past participle attediated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To be tedious to; to exhaust.
    • I often find him barren, sleightlie running-over those glorious deaths, as if he feared to attediate and molest us with their multitude and continuance.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8

Forms of attediate

third-person singular presentattediates
present participleattediating
past participleattediated
pastattediated

Origin of attediate

From (the stem of) Late Latin attaediāre.

Questions about attediate

What does attediate mean?
Attediate means to be tedious to; to exhaust.
What part of speech is attediate?
Attediate is a verb.
What is the past tense of attediate?
The past tense of attediate is attediated.

Words near attediate in the dictionary

  1. Atteberry
  2. Atteberrys
  3. Attebery
  4. Atteberys
  5. atted
  6. attediate
  7. atteint
  8. atteints
  9. attelabid
  10. attelabids
  11. attelabine

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