orienate

Verb

orienate (third-person singular simple present orienates, present participle orienating, simple past and past participle orienated)

1. (reflexive, transitive) To orientate, orient (oneself or something); to be able not to get lost.
   • He sat up amid the melting ephialtes, stared at the woman and tried to orienate himself.1928, Thomas Sigismund Stribling, East is East, page 114
   • Standing by the skeleton foundations, it is easy to orienate the old tragedy and to say with approximate accuracy, "There stood Wild Bill wher ^([sic]) the fight began;" " On this spot McCanles fell;" " There Woods stumbled to his death;" and "Yonder toward the old bridge, the doomed and wounded...1931, Frontier Times - Volume 9, page 379
2. (dated, intransitive, reflexive, transitive) To change (or make something change) for or get accustomed (or make something get accustomed) to a new situation, adapt.
   • We may also discern that Mary picks up something of a possible rebuke as, in her final turn, she orienate directly to this contrast between *then' and ' now' by identifying Jean and Mary as "you' - [...]2005, David Middleton, Steve D Brown, The Social Psychology of Experience
   • "...a militant party, a revolutionary party, bold enongh to lead the proletarians to the struggle for power, with sufficient experience to be able to orienate itself in the complicated problems that arise in a revolutionary situation [...]1948, Defendants' trial exhibits
3. (transitive) To point (something) in a particular direction.
   • For in every respect the author's approach and treatment are soundly calculated to develop a mentality, to orienate a spirituality, that will be nothing if not wholesome and traditional.1940, Orate Fratres, volume 15, No.15
   • [...]; but, apart from the general tendency on the part of the Government to orienate their economy in the direction of the latter country, the reason for this preference is threefold, [...]1948, British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia