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cruentate

cruentate adjective: smeared with blood.

Adjective

cruentate (comparative more cruentate, superlative most cruentate)

  1. (obsolete) Smeared with blood.
    • Atomical aporrheas […] passing from the cruentate cloth or weapon to the wound.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC

Forms of cruentate

comparativemore cruentate
superlativemost cruentate

Origin of cruentate

Borrowed from Latin cruentātus, perfect passive participle of cruentō (“to make bloody”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from cruentus (“bloody”), from cruor.

Questions about cruentate

What does cruentate mean?
Cruentate means smeared with blood.
What part of speech is cruentate?
Cruentate is an adjective.

Words near cruentate in the dictionary

  1. crueltie
  2. cruelties
  3. cruelty
  4. cruelty-free
  5. cruentaren
  6. cruentate
  7. cruentation
  8. cruentations
  9. cruentous
  10. crues
  11. cruet

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