spatiate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spatiatus, past participle of spatiari, from spatiatum. See space.

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To rove; to ramble.
   • Isaac Watts

     My spirit feels her freedom, shakes her wings, / Exults and spatiates o'er a thousand scenes […]

   • Richard Hurd

     […] spatiating, at their leisure, in shady walks and porticos […]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• apatites

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) spatiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of spatiātus