trepidate

trepidate

English

Etymology

Either back-formed from, or otherwise related to, trepidation.

Verb

trepidate (third-person singular simple present trepidates, present participle trepidating, simple past and past participle trepidated)

1. (uncommon, transitive) To cause to experience trepidation.
   • 1878, a Memphis newspaper, quoted in 2015, John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN), page 51:

     […] “A little trepidated, if not consternated, they lifted him from his close confinement and put him to bed.”

   • 2016, Debby Holt, The Soulmate, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN):

     If so, he was now deeply trepidated. He had almost hoped she would not live up to expectations. She might have lost her looks, acquired irritating habits, even proved to be unpleasant. But here she was, still beautiful and charming.

2. (uncommon, intransitive) To experience trepidation.
   • 1876, Thomas De Quincey, The Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, page 40:

     It sounded rather appalling to be engaged in a glee for three voices, with two performers such as these; and I trepidated a little as I went up stairs, having previously understood that the great man was already come.

   • 2007, Jack Womack, Elvissey: A Novel, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (→ISBN):

     I trepidated that evening upon entering their apartment; his wife, we were told, was from that other world, and no one briefed us as to how she would show.

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Italian

Verb

trepidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of trepidare
2. second-person plural imperative of trepidare
3. feminine plural of trepidato

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Latin

Verb

trepidāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of trepidō