单词 | properate |
释义 | † properatev. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To hasten, hurry; to come or go quickly.In quot. 1767 in a parody of Johnsonian style. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed rempeOE fuseOE rakeOE hiec1175 i-fusec1275 rekec1275 hastec1300 pellc1300 platc1300 startc1300 buskc1330 rapc1330 rapec1330 skip1338 firk1340 chase1377 raikc1390 to hie one's waya1400 catchc1400 start?a1505 spur1513 hasten1534 to make speed1548 post1553 hurry1602 scud1602 curry1608 to put on?1611 properate1623 post-haste1628 whirryc1630 dust1650 kite1854 to get a move on1888 to hump it1888 belt1890 to get (or put) one's skates on1895 hotfoot1896 to rattle one's dags1968 shimmy1969 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Properate, to hasten. 1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids ii. 43 A while to keep off death, which properates [L. certae occumbere morti]. 1646 Mercenary Souldier in Cavalier & Puritan (1923) 170 I wish the Wars May ever untill doomsday properate. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 62 Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy. 2. transitive. To hasten (something); to quicken the growth of. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > develop > promote or hasten the growth of foster1555 properate?1640 ?1640 T. Beedome Poems, Divine & Humane sig. H4 The Sonnes of men, To such familiar mercy call, Their spleen and gall To properate his haft to heaven again. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 109 Some [salts]..are..deadly to plants..others properate [them] too fast; and some are sluggish, and scarce advance them at all. 1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors xiv. 261 For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the Principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < v.1623 |
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