revelate

Latin revēlātus, perfect passive participle of revēlō. By surface analysis this English verb can be interpreted as a back-formation from such words as revelation, revelator, and revelatory.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəleɪt/

revelate (third-person singular simple present revelates, present participle revelating, simple past and past participle revelated)

1. (obsolete) To reveal.
   • 1529, John Frith, A Pistle to the Christian Reader: The Revelation of the Anti-Christ; An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope:

     the trueth may revelate

   • 1534, Robert Barnes, Supplication:

     The bysshoppes were not bounde to betraye theyr prynces nor to revelate theyr councelles to the Pope.

• relevate

revēlāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of revēlō

revelate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of revelar combined with te