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contiguate

contiguate adjective: contiguous, touching.

Adjective

contiguate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Contiguous, touching.
    • So then the Maſſe and Chaos being firſt created, void, darke, and imformed, was by the operatiue Spirit of God pierced and quickned, and the Waters hauing now receiued Spirit and motion, reſolued their thinner parts into aire, which God illightned .the Earth alſo by being contignat, and mixt with...1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the Creation, and Preſervation of the World.”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §....

Origin of contiguate

Middle English contiguat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin contiguātus, participial adjective from contiguor (“to be contiguous”), from contiguus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about contiguate

What does contiguate mean?
Contiguate means contiguous, touching.
What part of speech is contiguate?
Contiguate is an adjective.

Words near contiguate in the dictionary

  1. conticent
  2. contig
  3. contignation
  4. contignations
  5. contigs
  6. contiguate
  7. contiguation
  8. contiguations
  9. contiguities
  10. contiguity
  11. contiguosities

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