increpate

English

Etymology

From Latin increpatus, past participle of increpare (“to upbraid”); prefix in- (“in, against”) + crepare (“to talk noisily”).

Verb

increpate (third-person singular simple present increpates, present participle increpating, simple past and past participle increpated)

1. (obsolete) To chide; to rebuke; to reprove.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• parenetic

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) increpāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of increpō