properate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin properatus, past participle of properare (“to hasten”).
Verb
editproperate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)
- (obsolete) To hasten or press forward.
- 1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors[1]:
- For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.
- 1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton[2]:
- That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.
- 1774, Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times[3]:
- Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy.
Latin
editVerb
editproperāte