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ingeniate

ingeniate verb: to invent; to contrive.

Verb

ingeniate (third-person singular simple present ingeniates, present participle ingeniating, simple past and past participle ingeniated)

  1. (obsolete) To invent; to contrive.
    • And I must all I can ingeniate To answere for the same1607, Samuel Daniel, Funeral Poem Upon the Death of the Noble Earl of Devonshire

Forms of ingeniate

third-person singular presentingeniates
present participleingeniating
past participleingeniated
pastingeniated

Origin of ingeniate

See ingenious.

Questions about ingeniate

What does ingeniate mean?
Ingeniate means to invent; to contrive.
What part of speech is ingeniate?
Ingeniate is a verb.
What is the past tense of ingeniate?
The past tense of ingeniate is ingeniated.

Words near ingeniate in the dictionary

  1. ingenerated
  2. ingenerates
  3. ingenerating
  4. ingeneration
  5. ingeners
  6. ingeniate
  7. ingeniates
  8. ingenie
  9. Ingeniero Jacobacci
  10. ingeniosity
  11. ingenious

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