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Definition of Insolate
1. Verb. Expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun. "These herbs suffer when sunned"
Generic synonyms: Expose
Derivative terms: Insolation, Insolation, Insolation, Solarisation, Solarization, Sun
Definition of Insolate
1. v. t. To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.
Definition of Insolate
1. Verb. (transitive) To dry in, or expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insolate
1. to expose to sunlight [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insolate
Literary usage of Insolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"As soon as the cultures were placed in, position on the microscopes, I turned
each mirror so as to powerfully insolate each culture for exactly five minutes ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To insolate; to expo« to the sun ; to warm in 'he sun. SUNBEAM, (sun'-berne) n.«.
Ray of * SUN BEAT, (sun'-bete; part. «. Shone « fiercely by the sun. ..."
3. The Stranger in America: Or, Letters to a Gentleman in Germany: Comprising by Francis Lieber (1835)
"... for a colony among people of the Anglican race,—which, in point of politics,
has left every other race far behind,—to strive to insolate itself. ..."
4. A Year in Spain by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1829)
"Without, rises an amphitheatre of still higher mountains, which everywhere bound
the horizon and insolate this little spot within a world of its own. ..."
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