macerate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”) , whence make.

Pronunciation

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/

Noun

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæs.ə.ɹɪt/

Verb

1. To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
2. (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
   • 2006, David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, in Black Ships Ate the Sky, performed by Current 93:

     Baal scuttles with ten tails
     Between as many legs as he could carry—
     Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes
     And finding resolution beyond the scales
     And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
     Immaculately macerated God.

3. (obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
4. (obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 243-244:

     “My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I was macerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.

Translations

to soften or separate by immersion in a liquid

• French: macérer (fr)
• Galician: macerar (gl)
• German: mazerieren
• Italian: macerare (it)
• Latin: mācerō
• Latvian: atmiekšķēt
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: macerować (pl)
• Portuguese: macerar (pt)
• Russian: вымачивать (ru) (vymačivatʹ), размачивать (ru) (razmačivatʹ)
• Spanish: macerar (es)

to make lean, cause to waste away

• Latin: mācerō
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to subdue the appetite by a poor diet

• Polish: umartwiać się
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: изнуря́ть (ru) (iznurjátʹ)

Noun

macerate (plural macerates)

1. A macerated substance.

References

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

Anagrams

• camerate, cream tea, racemate

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Italian

Verb

macerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of macerare
2. second-person plural imperative of macerare
3. feminine plural of macerato

Anagrams

• camerate

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maː.keˈraː.te/, [mäːkɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.t͡ʃeˈra.te/, [mät͡ʃeˈräːt̪e]

Participle

(deprecated template usage) mācerāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mācerātus