egerminate
English
Etymology
From Latin ēgermināt-, perfect passive participial stem of Latin ēgerminō (“to sprout”). See Latin ē- (“out, away”), Latin germinō (“to sprout”), English germinate.
Verb
egerminate (third-person singular simple present egerminates, present participle egerminating, simple past and past participle egerminated)
- (obsolete, rare) To germinate.
- 1791, Sir John Sinclair, The statistical account of Scotland, volume 19, Edinburgh, page 361:
- There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue.
- 1839, Charles Robson, “ἐκφύω”, in A Greek lexicon to the New Testament, London: Whittaker and Co., page 137:
- […] ἐκφύῃ, in subjunct. present,—others read ἐκφυῇ, which is the subjunct. of ἐξεφύην, a later form of the aor. 2 for ἐξέφυν (intrans. as also the perf.), to egerminate, shoot out, put forth, i. e. the leaves put forth.
- 1859, A Noontide Vision, London: Partridge and Co., page 5:
- It was a small building […] ; its worn-out walls were covered with the multifoliate ivy, which extended its egerminating branches from the south end of the church […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “egerminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)