cruentate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cruentātus, perfect passive participle of cruentō (“to make bloody”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from cruentus (“bloody”), from cruor.

Adjective

cruentate (comparative more cruentate, superlative most cruentate)

  1. (obsolete) Smeared with blood.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
      Atomical aporrheas […] passing from the cruentate cloth or weapon to the wound.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cruentāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cruentō
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