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properate

properate verb: to hasten or press forward.

Verb

properate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)

  1. (obsolete) To hasten or press forward.
    • For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors
    • That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton

Forms of properate

third-person singular presentproperates
present participleproperating
past participleproperated
pastproperated

Origin of properate

From Latin properatus, past participle of properare (“to hasten”).

Questions about properate

What does properate mean?
Properate means to hasten or press forward.
What part of speech is properate?
Properate is a verb.
What is the past tense of properate?
The past tense of properate is properated.

Words near properate in the dictionary

  1. proper vector
  2. proper vectors
  3. properad
  4. properadic
  5. properads
  6. properate
  7. properating
  8. properation
  9. properdin
  10. properer
  11. properest

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