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religate

religate verb: to ligate again. Also the obsolete spelling of relegate.

Verb

religate (third-person singular simple present religates, present participle religating, simple past and past participle religated)

  1. To ligate again.

Also used as

religate is also the obsolete spelling of relegate.

Forms of religate

third-person singular presentreligates
present participlereligating
past participlereligated
pastreligated

Origin of religate

Partly from Latin religātus, the perfect passive participle of religō (“to bind back or behind”) and partly formed in English as re- + ligate.

See relegate ³.

Questions about religate

What does religate mean?
Religate means to ligate again.
What part of speech is religate?
Religate is a verb.
What is the past tense of religate?
The past tense of religate is religated.

Words near religate in the dictionary

  1. relifted
  2. relifting
  3. relifts
  4. relig
  5. relig.
  6. religate
  7. religated
  8. religates
  9. religating
  10. religation
  11. religations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: religate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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