masculate

English

Etymology

Latin masculus (“male, masculine”).

Verb

masculate (third-person singular simple present masculates, present participle masculating, simple past and past participle masculated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
   • 1878, Meta Orred, Berthold, and Other Poems:

     Great spiders watched his toil with globose eyes,
     And pined with empty masculated jaws

References

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

Anagrams

• maculates

Latin

Adjective

masculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of masculātus