macerate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō, from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”),[1] whence make.
Pronunciation edit
- Verb
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Noun
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæs.ə.ɹɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb edit
macerate (third-person singular simple present macerates, present participle macerating, simple past and past participle macerated)
- To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
- 2006, David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, in Black Ships Ate the Sky, performed by Current 93:
- Baal scuttles with ten tails
Between as many legs as he could carry—
Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes
And finding resolution beyond the scales
And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
Immaculately macerated God.
- Baal scuttles with ten tails
- 2006, David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, in Black Ships Ate the Sky, performed by Current 93:
- (obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
- (obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 243:
- “My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I was macerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.
Translations edit
to soften or separate by immersion in a liquid
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to make lean, cause to waste away
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to subdue the appetite by a poor diet
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Noun edit
macerate (plural macerates)
- A macerated substance.
References edit
- “macerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Notes:
- ^ The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European roots By Calvert Watkins, p. 50, "mag-" entry, item 5
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
macerate
- inflection of macerare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
macerate f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maː.keˈraː.te/, [mäːkɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma.t͡ʃeˈra.te/, [mät͡ʃeˈräːt̪e]
Participle edit
mācerāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
macerate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of macerar combined with te