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inviscates

inviscates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inviscate.

Meaning of inviscate

Verb

inviscate (third-person singular simple present inviscates, present participle inviscating, simple past and past participle inviscated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
    • […] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book 3, Chap. 21, "Of the Cameleon"

Questions about inviscates

What is inviscates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Inviscates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inviscate.

Words near inviscates in the dictionary

  1. invironing
  2. invirons
  3. invis
  4. inviscate
  5. inviscated
  6. inviscates
  7. inviscating
  8. inviscation
  9. inviscerate
  10. inviscid
  11. inviscid flow

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