invulnerate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin invulneratus (unwounded).

Adjective[edit]

invulnerate (comparative more invulnerate, superlative most invulnerate)

  1. (obsolete) invulnerable
    • 1721, Samuel Butler, Satire upon marriage:
      For horns (like horny callouses) are found / to grow on sculls that have receiv'd a wound, / are crackt, and broken; not at all on those / that are invulnerate and free from blows.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

invulnerate

  1. feminine plural of invulnerato