insectator
English
Etymology
From Latin insectari (“to pursue”), frequentative from insequi. See ensue.
Noun
insectator (plural insectators)
- (obsolete) A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 insectator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- anticorset, carnotites
Latin
Verb
insectātor
- second-person singular future active imperative of insector
- third-person singular future active imperative of insector
References
- insectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- insectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette