debellate

debellate

English

Etymology

Latin debellatus, past participle of debellare (“to subdue”).

Verb

debellate (third-person singular simple present debellates, present participle debellating, simple past and past participle debellated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To subdue; to conquer in war.
   • 1623, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edvvard the Third, King of England, and France, Lord of Ireland, &c. the Fortie-ninth Monarch of England, […]”, in The Historie of Great Britaine vnder the Conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, for George Hvmble, […], OCLC 150671135, book 9, paragraph 138, page 720, column 1:

     They [the French] deſire (K. Edward [III] growne aged) not to ſeeme by ſitting ſtill vpon ſo many thornes of diſgrace, and loſſe, to haue bin out-warred, though ouer-warred, and though in two or three battels inferior, yet not to haue beene clearly debellated.

   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching an Holy War

     It doth notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages, in the approbation of the extirpating and debellating of giants, monsters, and foreign tyrants, not only as lawful, but as meritorious even of divine honour.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for debellate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• deletable

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Italian

Verb

debellate

1. inflection of debellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

debellate f pl

1. feminine plural of debellato

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Latin

Verb

dēbellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēbellō