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Definition of Oculate
1. a. Furnished with eyes.
Definition of Oculate
1. having eyes [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oculate
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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