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exinanite

exinanite verb: to make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.

Verb

exinanite (third-person singular simple present exinanites, present participle exinaniting, simple past and past participle exinanited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To empty someone of their power and dignity (usually said of Christ).
    • For this thinke in your ſelues, vvhich alſo in Chriſt Iesvs, vvho vvhen he vvas in the forme of God, thought it no robberie, him ſelf to be equal to God, but he exinanited him ſelf, taking the forme of a ſeruant, made into the ſimilitude of men, and in ſhape found as man.1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Philippians 2:5–7, page 528

Forms of exinanite

third-person singular presentexinanites
present participleexinaniting
past participleexinanited
pastexinanited

Origin of exinanite

Borrowed from Latin exinānīt-, exinānīre (“to empty the contents of; to drain or pour out”).

Words formed from exinanite

  • exinanitiate

Questions about exinanite

What does exinanite mean?
Exinanite means to make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.
What part of speech is exinanite?
Exinanite is a verb.
What is the past tense of exinanite?
The past tense of exinanite is exinanited.

Words near exinanite in the dictionary

  1. exility
  2. eximer
  3. eximious
  4. eximiously
  5. exinal
  6. exinanite
  7. exinanited
  8. exinanites
  9. exinaniting
  10. exinanition
  11. exinanitions

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