reluctate

See reluct.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈlʌkteɪt/

reluctate (third-person singular simple present reluctates, present participle reluctating, simple past and past participle reluctated)

1. (obsolete) To be reluctant; to resist or oppose.
   • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:

     to delude their reluctating consciences

• “reluctate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

relū̆ctāte

1. vocative masculine singular of relū̆ctātus