masculate

English

Etymology

Latin masculus (“male, masculine”).

Verb

masculate (third-person singular simple present masculates, present participle masculating, simple past and past participle masculated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
    • 1878, Meta Orred, Berthold, and Other Poems:
      Great spiders watched his toil with globose eyes,
      And pined with empty masculated jaws

References
  • masculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

masculāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of masculātus
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