debellate

English

Etymology

Latin debellatus, past participle of debellare (“to subdue”).

Verb

debellate (third-person singular simple present debellates, present participle debellating, simple past and past participle debellated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To subdue; to conquer in war.
   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edvvard the Third, King of England, and France, Lord of Ireland, &c. the Fortie-ninth Monarch of England, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 138, page 720, column 1:

     They [the French] deſire (K. Edward [III] growne aged) not to ſeeme by ſitting ſtill vpon ſo many thornes of diſgrace, and loſſe, to haue bin out-warred, though ouer-warred, and though in two or three battels inferior, yet not to haue beene clearly debellated.

   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching an Holy War

     It doth notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages, in the approbation of the extirpating and debellating of giants, monsters, and foreign tyrants, not only as lawful, but as meritorious even of divine honour.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• deletable

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

debellate

1. inflection of debellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

debellate f pl

1. feminine plural of debellato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēbellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēbellō