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单词 proculcate
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proculcatev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prōculcāt-, prōculcāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin prōculcāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of prōculcāre to tread down, trample on < prō- pro- prefix1 + calcāre calcate v.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To tread or trample down; (figurative) to despise, spurn.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Proculcate, to tread vnder foot.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 195 Wee should have proculcated and trampled under foote most faire hopes of immortality unto glory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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