ominate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ominatus, past participle of ominari (“to presage”), from omen.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editominate (third-person singular simple present ominates, present participle ominating, simple past and past participle ominated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To presage; to foreshow; to be an omen for
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
- A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellowſhippe by nature, whereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes was predeſtinate to thee from thy ſwadling clothes.
- 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “(please specify the page)”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC:
- But I cannot ominate so well touching this Congress
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “ominate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editLatin
editParticiple
editōmināte
Spanish
editVerb
editominate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ominar combined with te