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▪ I. ingravidate, v.|ɪnˈgrævɪdeɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of late L. ingravidāre to make heavy or pregnant, f. in- (in-2) + gravidus heavy, gravid.]
1. trans. To load or weigh; to render gravid, to impregnate.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xii. 39 They may..be so pregnant and ingravidated with lustfull thoughts. 1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 78 Ingravidated with a vitrioline salt. 1698Phil. Trans. XX. 466 [He] tells us how the Country-men ingravidate the Female [Pistachio-tree] with the Flowers of the Male. 1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iv. 381 His receptive and responsive capacity of genius..ingravidated his utterance as with the weight of worlds.
2. intr. To become heavy; to be weighed down.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 181 By the cohibition of these dreggs..the body ingravidates.
▪ II. † inˈgravidate, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. late L. ingravidāt-us, pa. pple. of ingravidāre: see prec.]
Loaded.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋180 To deliver..the ingravidate..veins from the Tympany of a Plethora. |