emendicate

English

Etymology

From Latin emendicatus, past participle of emendicare (“to obtain by begging”). See mendicate.

Verb

emendicate (third-person singular simple present emendicates, present participle emendicating, simple past and past participle emendicated)

1. (obsolete) To beg.
   • 1642, Edward Reynolds, An Explication of the Hundreth and Tenth Psalme:

     And therefore the Temple was built , and the Arke set therein , in the dayes of Salomon , when there was not an emendicated or borrowed peace , depending upon the courtesie of the neighbour Nations

References

• “emendicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

ēmendīcāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēmendīcātus