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erugate

erugate verb: to remove wrinkles from.

Verb

erugate (third-person singular simple present erugates, present participle erugating, simple past and past participle erugated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To remove wrinkles from.
    • [page 694:] […] and erugates the belly after birth.
      [page 737:] […] old Hags, to erugate or emend their Faces; herein following the prudence of Galen, though a Pagan, who disallows of not onely the Painting of Faces, but the Tinctures of Hair; […]1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals ... : Methodically Digested...
    • It purgeth and erugates the face, […]1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, Both Ancient and Modern: Also an Introduction to Zoography and...

Forms of erugate

third-person singular presenterugates
present participleerugating
past participleerugated
pasterugated

Origin of erugate

From Latin ērūgō, ērūgātus.

Questions about erugate

What does erugate mean?
Erugate means to remove wrinkles from.
What part of speech is erugate?
Erugate is a verb.
What is the past tense of erugate?
The past tense of erugate is erugated.

Words near erugate in the dictionary

  1. eruditical
  2. erudition
  3. eruditional
  4. eruditions
  5. erudits
  6. erugate
  7. erugated
  8. erugates
  9. erugating
  10. eruginous
  11. erumnies

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