allineate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from the past participle of Italian allineare.[1]
Verb
editallineate (third-person singular simple present allineates, present participle allineating, simple past and past participle allineated)
- To align.
- 1867, John Frederick William Herschel, Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects:
- the intended base line allineated by placing a telescope a little beyond one of its proposed extremities
References
edit- ^ “allineate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021.
Further reading
edit- “allineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editallineate
- inflection of allineare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editallineate f pl