masculate

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin masculus (“male, masculine”).

Verb edit

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

(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 edit

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

Anagrams edit

maculates

Latin edit

Adjective edit

masculāte

vocative masculine singular of masculātus