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Definition of Salivate

1. Verb. Produce saliva. "We salivated when he described the great meal"

2. Verb. Be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something. "Sam and Sue salivate over the results of the experiment"; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated"

Definition of Salivate

1. v. t. To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.

Definition of Salivate

1. Verb. (intransitive) To produce saliva. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Salivate

1. to secrete saliva [v -VATED, -VATING, -VATES]

Medical Definition of Salivate

1. To cause an excessive flow of saliva. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salivate

salivary duct salivary duct calculi salivary ducts salivary fistula salivary gland salivary gland biopsy salivary gland calculi salivary gland disease salivary gland fistula salivary gland hormone

salivary gland virus salivary glands salivary proteins salivary virus salivas salivate (current term) salivated salivates salivating salivation

salivations salivator salivators salivatory salivolithiasis salivous salivæ salix salk vaccine sall

Literary usage of Salivate

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Being slow in its action, and liable to salivate if too long retained, it is usually administered with some saline cathartic. It is also given as a remedy ..."

2. Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six Years' Membership in by Samuel Clagett Busey (1895)
"After a very cursory and superficial examination he announced his opinion in his very emphatic manner—" salivate, salivate, salivate him, and he will get ..."

3. Recollections of Itinerant Life: Including Early Reminiscences by George Brown (1866)
"Doctors Lindley and Fuller were pleased to find me so whole-hearted, and spoke of certain preparations of calomel, which they were certain would salivate me ..."

4. A dictionary of the Greek and English languages: with a table of proper by Johannes Pervanoglu (1894)
"... to excrete saliva, to spit; to salivate. i ... to babbie, to prate, to talk nonsense, to salivate. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Being slow in its action, and liable to salivate if too long retained, it is usually administered with some saline cathartic. It is also given as a remedy ..."

6. Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six Years' Membership in by Samuel Clagett Busey (1895)
"After a very cursory and superficial examination he announced his opinion in his very emphatic manner—" salivate, salivate, salivate him, and he will get ..."

7. Recollections of Itinerant Life: Including Early Reminiscences by George Brown (1866)
"Doctors Lindley and Fuller were pleased to find me so whole-hearted, and spoke of certain preparations of calomel, which they were certain would salivate me ..."

8. A dictionary of the Greek and English languages: with a table of proper by Johannes Pervanoglu (1894)
"... to excrete saliva, to spit; to salivate. i ... to babbie, to prate, to talk nonsense, to salivate. ..."

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