imperate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin imperatus, past participle of imperare (“to command”).

Adjective

imperate (comparative more imperate, superlative most imperate)

1. (obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir M. Hale and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Those imperate acts, wherein we see the empire of the soul.

   • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Why give you peace to this imperate beast / That hath so long transgressed you?

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• eta prime, etaprime, premiate

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Italian

Verb

imperate

1. second-person plural present indicative of imperare
2. second-person plural imperative of imperare
3. feminine plural of imperato

Anagrams

• permeati, pietrame, premiate, temperai

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) imperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of imperō