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mactates

mactates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mactate.

Meaning of mactate

Verb

mactate (third-person singular simple present mactates, present participle mactating, simple past and past participle mactated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To kill in sacrifice.
    • As has been shown, it is historically true that a vulgar opinion to the effect that Christ was separately mactated in the sacrifices of masses prevailed at the time of the Reformation, which opinion being perfectly analogous to that which the Apostle combats, nothing could be more appropriate than...1860, The Rev. William Henderson et al., Theological Defence for the Right Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, D.C.L., Bishop of Brechin, page 74

Questions about mactates

What is mactates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mactates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mactate.

Words near mactates in the dictionary

  1. Mactan
  2. Mactard
  3. Mactards
  4. mactate
  5. mactated
  6. mactates
  7. mactating
  8. mactation
  9. mactations
  10. mactators
  11. MacTavish

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