fatigate
English
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /ˈfætɪɡeɪt/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈfætɪɡət/
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Verb
fatigate (third-person singular simple present fatigates, present participle fatigating, simple past and past participle fatigated)
- (obsolete) To weary; to tire; to fatigue.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- But Fabius being painful in pursuing Annibal from place to place, awaiting to have him at advantage, at the last did so fatigate him and his host
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Adjective
fatigate (comparative more fatigate, superlative most fatigate)
- (obsolete) Wearied; tired; fatigued.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- he suffre nat the childe to be fatigate with continuall studie or lernyng
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 68:
- The young Englishman […] never fatigate, nor despondent, nor overthrown by any demand.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fatigate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
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