conculcate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conculcatus, past participle of conculcare (“to conculcate”).

Verb

conculcate (third-person singular simple present conculcates, present participle conculcating, simple past and past participle conculcated)

1. (transitive, obsolete, often figurative) To tread or trample underfoot.

Adjective

conculcate (comparative more conculcate, superlative most conculcate)

1. (obsolete, often figurative) Despised, disregarded, trampled.
   • 1904, James Elroy Flecker, Lucretia:

     […] the sorrowful world of men: / Old castles fired, old mountains overturned, / Old majesties conculcate in the dust […]

Related terms

• inculcate

References

• “conculcate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

conculcate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

conculcate f pl

1. feminine plural of conculcato

Latin

Verb

conculcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of conculcō

Spanish

Verb

conculcate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of conculcar combined with te