increpate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin increpatus, past participle of increpare (“to upbraid”); prefix in- (“in, against”) + crepare (“to talk noisily”).
Verb edit
increpate (third-person singular simple present increpates, present participle increpating, simple past and past participle increpated)
- (obsolete) To chide; to rebuke; to tell off.
- 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters To Squire Pedant, In The East:
- […] increpated all iconolaters
References edit
- “increpate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
increpāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
increpate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of increpar combined with te