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emendicate

emendicate verb: to beg.

Verb

emendicate (third-person singular simple present emendicates, present participle emendicating, simple past and past participle emendicated)

  1. (obsolete) To beg.
    • And therefore the Temple was built , and the Arke set therein , in the dayes of Salomon , when there was not an emendicated or borrowed peace , depending upon the courtesie of the neighbour Nations1642, Edward Reynolds, An Explication of the Hundreth and Tenth Psalme

Forms of emendicate

third-person singular presentemendicates
present participleemendicating
past participleemendicated
pastemendicated

Origin of emendicate

From Latin emendicatus, past participle of emendicare (“to obtain by begging”). See mendicate.

Questions about emendicate

What does emendicate mean?
Emendicate means to beg.
What part of speech is emendicate?
Emendicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of emendicate?
The past tense of emendicate is emendicated.

Words near emendicate in the dictionary

  1. emendators
  2. emendatory
  3. emended
  4. emender
  5. emenders
  6. emendicate
  7. emendicates
  8. emending
  9. emends
  10. Emenheiser
  11. emepronium

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