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contabulate

contabulate verb: to lay floorboards.

Verb

contabulate (third-person singular simple present contabulates, present participle contabulating, simple past and past participle contabulated)

  1. To lay floorboards.
    • For the floor, though it felt to Watt like stone, was in reality contabulated, all over.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Forms of contabulate

third-person singular presentcontabulates
present participlecontabulating
past participlecontabulated
pastcontabulated

Origin of contabulate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin contabulātus, perfect passive participle of contabulō (“to cover with boards”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about contabulate

What does contabulate mean?
Contabulate means to lay floorboards.
What part of speech is contabulate?
Contabulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of contabulate?
The past tense of contabulate is contabulated.

Words near contabulate in the dictionary

  1. cont. p.94
  2. cont. p94
  3. Conta
  4. contabescence
  5. contabescent
  6. contabulate
  7. contabulated
  8. contabulates
  9. contabulating
  10. contabulation
  11. contact

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