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innodate

innodate verb: (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.

Verb

innodate (third-person singular simple present innodates, present participle innodating, simple past and past participle innodated)

  1. (obsolete) (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.
    • we do innodate with the like sentence of anathema1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Forms of innodate

third-person singular presentinnodates
present participleinnodating
past participleinnodated
pastinnodated

Origin of innodate

First attested in 1630; adapted from Medieval Latin vinculis anathematis innodare (“to bind (someone) with/in the bounds of anathema”), borrowed from Latin innōdātus, perfect passive participle of innōdō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + nodus (“knot”).

Questions about innodate

What does innodate mean?
Innodate means (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.
What part of speech is innodate?
Innodate is a verb.
What is the past tense of innodate?
The past tense of innodate is innodated.

Words near innodate in the dictionary

  1. innoculative
  2. innocuous
  3. innocuously
  4. innocuousness
  5. innocuousnesses
  6. innodate
  7. innodated
  8. innodates
  9. innodating
  10. Innogen
  11. Innogens

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