opacate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)
- (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion , and disposed after a new manner , they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 opacate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Verb[edit]
opacate
Participle[edit]
opacate
- feminine plural of the past participle of opacare