ingravidate

English

Etymology

From 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 (literal or figurative).
   • 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

References

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

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