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excecate

excecate verb: to blind.

Verb

excecate (third-person singular simple present excecates, present participle excecating, simple past and past participle excecated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To blind.
    • God doth worke inwardly in the hearts of sinners, doth excecate and obdurate the minds of men1630, James Sharpe, The Triall of the Protestant Priuate Spirit

Forms of excecate

third-person singular presentexcecates
present participleexcecating
past participleexcecated
pastexcecated
alternative form (obsolete)excæcate

Origin of excecate

Borrowed from Latin excaecātus, perfect passive participle of excaecō (“to blind”), from ex- (denoting privation) + caecō (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”).

Questions about excecate

What does excecate mean?
Excecate means to blind.
What part of speech is excecate?
Excecate is a verb.
What is the past tense of excecate?
The past tense of excecate is excecated.

Words near excecate in the dictionary

  1. excavatory
  2. excavatrices
  3. excavatrix
  4. excave
  5. Exceat
  6. excecate
  7. excecated
  8. excecates
  9. excecating
  10. excecation
  11. excecations

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