fatigate
English
editEtymology
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edit- (verb) IPA(key): /ˈfætɪɡeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈfætɪɡət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editfatigate (third-person singular simple present fatigates, present participle fatigating, simple past and past participle fatigated)
- (obsolete) To weary; to tire; to fatigue.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- But Fabius being painful in pursuing Annibal from place to place, awaiting to have him at advantage, at the last did so fatigate him and his host
Adjective
editfatigate (comparative more fatigate, superlative most fatigate)
- (obsolete) Wearied; tired; fatigued.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- he suffre nat the childe to be fatigate with continuall studie or lernyng
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 68:
- The young Englishman […] never fatigate, nor despondent, nor overthrown by any demand.
References
edit- “fatigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
editVerb
editfatīgāte
Spanish
editVerb
editfatigate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of fatigar combined with te
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