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单词 decurtate
释义 I. deˈcurtate, a. rare.
[ad. L. dēcurtāt-us, pa. pple. of dēcurtāre: see prec.]
Cut down, shortened, abridged, curtailed.
a1638Mede Ep. to Hayn Wks. (1672) iv. 755 The preposition [b⊇] being decurtate of [bên] inter.1859F. Hall Vásavadattá Preface 8 Bána..lopped off his own hands and feet..In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.
II. deˈcurtate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. dēcurtāre: see prec. and -ate3.]
trans. = decurt v.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. A ij b, Hee sendes for his barber to depure, decurtate, and spunge him.1623Cockeram, Decurtate, to shorten.1676Cole in Phil. Trans. XI. 607 Those, which had been decurtated by the unequal cutting of the knife.
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