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Properate

Prop′er-ate

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[L.
properatus
, p. p. of
properare
to hasten.]
To hasten, or press forward.
[Obs.]

Definition 2024


properate

properate

English

Verb

properate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)

  1. (obsolete) To hasten or press forward.
    • 1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors:
      For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.
    • 1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton:
      That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.
    • 1774, Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times:
      Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy.

Latin

Verb

properāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of properō