macerate

macerate

English

Etymology

From Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō, from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”) [1], whence make.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/

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Noun

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæs.ə.ɹɪt/

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Verb

macerate (third-person singular simple present macerates, present participle macerating, simple past and past participle macerated)

1. To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
2. (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
   • 2006, David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, in Black Ships Ate the Sky, performed by Current 93:

     Baal scuttles with ten tails
     Between as many legs as he could carry—
     Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes
     And finding resolution beyond the scales
     And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
     Immaculately macerated God.

3. (obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
4. (obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.
   • 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], OCLC 1202978654, page 243:

     “My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I was macerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.

Translations

to soften or separate by immersion in a liquid

Bulgarian: накисвам (bg) (nakisvam) Dutch: weken (nl) French: macérer (fr) Galician: macerar (gl) German: mazerieren Italian: macerare (it) Latin: mācerō Latvian: atmiekšķēt Polish: macerować (pl) Portuguese: macerar (pt) Russian: вымачивать (ru) (vymačivatʹ), размачивать (ru) (razmačivatʹ) Spanish: macerar (es)

to make lean, cause to waste away

Latin: mācerō

to subdue the appetite by a poor diet

Polish: umartwiać się Russian: изнуря́ть (ru) (iznurjátʹ)

Noun

macerate (plural macerates)

1. A macerated substance.

References

• macerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Notes:

1. The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European rootsBy Calvert Watkins, p. 50, "mag-" entry, item 5

Anagrams

• camerate, cream tea, racemate

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.t͡ʃeˈra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: ma‧ce‧rà‧te

Verb

macerate

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

Participle

macerate f pl

1. feminine plural of macerato

Anagrams

• camerate

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maː.keˈraː.te/, [mäːkɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.t͡ʃeˈra.te/, [mät͡ʃeˈräːt̪e]

Participle

mācerāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mācerātus