philosophate
English
Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin philosophārī, from philosophus (“philosopher”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fɪˈlɒsəfeɪt/
Verb
philosophate (third-person singular simple present philosophates, present participle philosophating, simple past and past participle philosophated)
- (rare) To philosophize.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- If, as some say, to philosophate be to doubt; with much more reason, to rave and fantastiquize, as I doe, must necessarily be to doubt […].
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury, translating Galileo Galilei, Dialogues on Two World Systems:
- Logick, as it is well understood, is the Organe with which we philosophate […].
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Latin
Participle
philosophāte
- vocative masculine singular of philosophātus