conquassate
English
Etymology
Latin conquassatus, past participle of conquassare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɒŋˈkwæseɪt/, /kɒŋˈkwɒseɪt/
Verb
conquassate (third-person singular simple present conquassates, present participle conquassating, simple past and past participle conquassated)
- (obsolete, transitive, rare) To shake; to agitate.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- vomits do violently conquassate the Lungs, and tear the Ulcer wider
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Related terms
- conquassation
References
conquassate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Verb
conquassāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of conquassō