calcitrate

English

Etymology

Latin calcitratus, past participle of calcitrare.

Verb

calcitrate (third-person singular simple present calcitrates, present participle calcitrating, simple past and past participle calcitrated)

1. (formal, transitive, intransitive) To kick.

Related terms

• calcitrant
• calcitration
• recalcitrant

 

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Latin

Verb

calcitrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of calcitrō