assiduate

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English

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Etymology

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Latin assiduatus, past participle of assiduo (to apply constantly).

Adjective

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assiduate (comparative more assiduate, superlative most assiduate)

  1. (obsolete) unremitting; assiduous
    • 1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin Surnamed Ambrosius:
      [] the queen made assiduate labour for the delivery of the king, her husband, promising he would surrender the whole land into her possession []

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 assiduate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Verb

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assiduāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of assiduō