insidiate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin insidiatus, past participle of insidiare (“to lie in ambush”), from insidiae. See insidious.
Verb edit
insidiate (third-person singular simple present insidiates, present participle insidiating, simple past and past participle insidiated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lie in ambush for.
- 1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin […] :
- he afterwards long sought all advantages how to insidiate his life
References edit
- “insidiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
insidiate
- inflection of insidiare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
insidiate f pl
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Latin edit
Verb edit
īnsidiāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
insidiate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of insidiar combined with te