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indigitate

indigitate verb: to proclaim, declare.

Verb

indigitate (third-person singular simple present indigitates, present participle indigitating, simple past and past participle indigitated)

  1. (obsolete) To proclaim, declare.
  2. (obsolete) To indicate, point to.
    • Horace therefore, Juvenal, and Persius were no Prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6

Forms of indigitate

third-person singular presentindigitates
present participleindigitating
past participleindigitated
pastindigitated

Origin of indigitate

* From (the stem of) Latin indigitāre (“call upon (a deity), proclaim”). * Later associated with digitus (“finger”), hence the pointing sense.

Words formed from indigitate

Questions about indigitate

What does indigitate mean?
Indigitate means to proclaim, declare.
What part of speech is indigitate?
Indigitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of indigitate?
The past tense of indigitate is indigitated.

Words near indigitate in the dictionary

  1. indigine
  2. indigines
  3. Indigiqueer
  4. indigirite
  5. Indigirka
  6. indigitate
  7. indigitated
  8. indigitates
  9. indigitating
  10. indigitation
  11. indigitations

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