ingravidate

English

Etymology

Latin ingravidatus, past participle of ingravidare (“to impregnate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈɡɹævɪdeɪt/

Verb

ingravidate (third-person singular simple present ingravidates, present participle ingravidating, simple past and past participle ingravidated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To impregnate.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     they may keep stews in their hearts, and be so pregnant and ingravidated with lustfull thought

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

ingravidate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

ingravidate f pl

1. feminine plural of ingravidato