deligate

English

Etymology

Latin deligatus, past participle of deligare (“to bind up”).

Verb

deligate (third-person singular simple present deligates, present participle deligating, simple past and past participle deligated)

1. (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
   • 1851, The Medical examiner, and record of medical science: Volume 7, page 322:

     Every one is aware of the uncertainty as well as great danger of the different cutting and deligating operations for the removal of this distressing infirmity.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Latin

Verb

dēligāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēligō

Participle

dēligāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēligātus