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单词 cadaverate
释义

cadaverate

English

Etymology

From Latin cadāver + -ate.[1]

Verb

cadaverate (third-person singular simple present cadaverates, present participle cadaverating, simple past and past participle cadaverated)

  1. (rare, obsolete) To make lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.
    • 1658, George Starkey, Natures explication and Helmont's vindication, III:
      [Excrementa] [] which [] are by the heat of the body cadaverated, and cast forth.
    • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. V, letter 85:
      Could lovers [] , with the wretched selfish jealousy of a modern marriage-maker, seek to cadaverate affection and to pervert each other into a utensil, a commodity, a thing appropriate to self and liable with other lumber to be cast aside?

References

  1. James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Cada·verate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 12, column 2.
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