aggrate

English

Etymology

From Italian aggradare, from Latin aggrātāre.

Verb

aggrate (third-person singular simple present aggrates, present participle aggrating, simple past and past participle aggrated)

1. (obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And euery of them stroue, with most delights, / Him to aggrate, and greatest pleasures shew […]