opacate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editopacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)
- (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
- 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
- […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “opacate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editopacate
- inflection of opacare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editopacate f pl
Spanish
editVerb
editopacate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of opacar combined with te