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laetificates

laetificates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of laetificate.

Meaning of laetificate

Verb

laetificate (third-person singular simple present laetificates, present participle laetificating, simple past and past participle laetificated)

  1. (ambitransitive, formal, rare) To make, or become, happy.
    • It is called the laetificant, or Powder of gladness, from its effect, for it laetificates the heart and spirits1657, Richard Tomlinson, transl., A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […] , translation of original by Jean de Renou
  2. (formal, rare, transitive) To enrich; to fertilize.

Questions about laetificates

What is laetificates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Laetificates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of laetificate.

Words near laetificates in the dictionary

  1. laesural
  2. Laetare Sunday
  3. Laetare Sundays
  4. laetificate
  5. laetificated
  6. laetificates
  7. laetificating
  8. laetification
  9. Laetitia
  10. laetmogonid
  11. laetmogonids

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