ingravidate
English
Etymology
Latin ingravidatus, past participle of ingravidare (“to impregnate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪŋˈɡɹævɪdeɪt/
Verb
ingravidate (third-person singular simple present ingravidates, present participle ingravidating, simple past and past participle ingravidated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To impregnate (literal or figurative).
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
- they may keep stews in their hearts, and be so pregnant and ingravidated with lustfull thought
References
- “ingravidate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
ingravidate
- inflection of ingravidare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
ingravidate f pl
- feminine plural of ingravidato