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hereticate

hereticate verb: to denounce as heresy or a heretic.

Verb

hereticate (third-person singular simple present hereticates, present participle hereticating, simple past and past participle hereticated)

  1. (transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
    • And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English
    • If that great Chancellor of Paris were now alive, he would freely teach his Sorbonne, as he once did, that it is not in the Pope's power, that I may use his own word, to hereticate any proposition.c. 1629, Joseph Hall, Answer to Pope Urban his inurbanity expressed, in a brief against the Protestants of France

Forms of hereticate

third-person singular presenthereticates
present participlehereticating
past participlehereticated
pasthereticated

Origin of hereticate

First attested in 1629; borrowed from Medieval Latin haereticātus, perfect passive participle of haereticō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about hereticate

What does hereticate mean?
Hereticate means to denounce as heresy or a heretic.
What part of speech is hereticate?
Hereticate is a verb.
What is the past tense of hereticate?
The past tense of hereticate is hereticated.

Words near hereticate in the dictionary

  1. hereticall
  2. heretically
  3. hereticalness
  4. hereticaster
  5. hereticasters
  6. hereticate
  7. hereticated
  8. hereticates
  9. hereticating
  10. heretication
  11. heretications

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