Definition of Oculate

1. a. Furnished with eyes.

Definition of Oculate

1. having eyes [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oculate

ocular physiology
ocular prosthesis
ocular rigidity
ocular scoliosis
ocular sparganosis
ocular tension
ocular torticollis
ocular vertigo
ocularcentrism
ocularist
ocularists
ocularly
oculars
oculary
oculate (current term)
oculated
oculentum
oculesic
oculesics
oculi
oculiform
oculina
oculinacea
oculist
oculists
oculo-
oculoauriculovertebral
oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia

Literary usage of Oculate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Der. ocular-ly, bin-ocular, in-oculate ; also ocul-ist, from Lat. oculus. ODD, not even, strange, queer. (Scand.) ME odd«. ..."

2. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"... carbon, oculate) ; there are abstract terms for mental and moral qualities (as sagacity, carelessness, probity, honor) and adjectives describing persons ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"... vol. xxi, part 4, No. 3, 1895, pp. 11, 12. Mr. JM Clarke has suggested at p. 801 of his memoir, mentioned in § IV, that the oculate genus ..."

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