increpate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin increpatus, past participle of increpare (“to upbraid”); prefix in- (“in, against”) + crepare (“to talk noisily”).
Verb[edit]
increpate (third-person singular simple present increpates, present participle increpating, simple past and past participle increpated)
- (obsolete) To chide; to rebuke; to tell off.
- 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters To Squire Pedant, In The East:
- […] increpated all iconolaters
References[edit]
- “increpate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
increpāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
increpate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of increpar combined with te