imperate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin imperātus, past participle of imperō (“I command”). Doublet of mpret.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editimperate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- those Imperate acts before spoken of wherein we see the immediate empire of the Soul.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “imperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editIdo
editPronunciation
editVerb
editimperate
- adverbial present passive participle of imperar
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editimperate
- inflection of imperare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editimperate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /im.peˈraː.te/, [ɪmpɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.peˈra.te/, [impeˈräːt̪e]
Verb
editimperāte
Spanish
editVerb
editimperate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of imperar combined with te
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