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calamistrate

calamistrate verb: to curl (the hair).

Verb

calamistrate (third-person singular simple present calamistrates, present participle calamistrating, simple past and past participle calamistrated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
    • Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up […], to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III...

Forms of calamistrate

third-person singular presentcalamistrates
present participlecalamistrating
past participlecalamistrated
pastcalamistrated

Origin of calamistrate

Borrowed from Latin calamistrātus, perfect passive participle of calamistrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about calamistrate

What does calamistrate mean?
Calamistrate means to curl (the hair).
What part of speech is calamistrate?
Calamistrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of calamistrate?
The past tense of calamistrate is calamistrated.

Words near calamistrate in the dictionary

  1. calamines
  2. calamining
  3. calamint
  4. calamints
  5. calamistra
  6. calamistrate
  7. calamistrated
  8. calamistrum
  9. calamitaceous
  10. calamite
  11. Calamitean

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