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Definition of Radicate
1. a. Radicated.
2. v. i. To take root; to become rooted.
3. v. t. To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.
Definition of Radicate
1. Verb. (rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To take root; to become established. ¹
3. Adjective. Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established. ¹
4. Adjective. (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Radicate
1. to cause to take root [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Medical Definition of Radicate
1. To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. "Time should . . . Rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness." (Barrow) Origin: Radicated; Radicating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Radicate
Literary usage of Radicate
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)
"prehistoric Aryan form whence it would regularly be descended.' This makes it
co-radicate with Cup and Coif; and the orig. sense would be 'vessel' or 'cup. ..."
2. Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston: His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a by Mark Napier (1834)
"In like manner hence it follows that a radicate with an uneven index has only
one root, an abundant radicate an abundant root, and a defective radicate a ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"radicate, a. Deeply rooted, firmly established. Rake, я. Libertine, debauchee,
man of pleasure Radix, M. [L.] Root, radical, etymon, primitive word ..."
4. Reminiscences of the "filibuster" War in Nicaragua by Charles William Doubleday (1886)
"We did not hesitate to pronounce it a trap that would be more fatal to its
occupants than to the enemy, telling radicate that the recoil of his heavy guns ..."
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