sublate

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin sublatum, past participle of suffero.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /sʌbˈleɪt/, /səˈbleɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb[edit]

sublate (third-person singular simple present sublates, present participle sublating, simple past and past participle sublated)

  1. (transitive, logic) To negate, deny or contradict.
  2. (transitive) To take or carry away; to remove.
    • 1550, Edward Hall, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC:
      The aucthores of ye mischiefe [were] sublated and plucked awaye.

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Latin[edit]

Participle[edit]

sublāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of sublātus

References[edit]

  • “sublate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sublate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sublate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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