opacate
English
Etymology
From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊpəkeɪt/
Verb
opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)
- (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
- 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, OCLC 633153238:
- upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion , and disposed after a new manner , they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.
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Related terms
- opacity
- opaque
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 opacate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- pea coat, peacoat
Italian
Verb
opacate
- inflection of opacare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
opacate f pl
- feminine plural of opacato