cicurate

English

Etymology

From Latin cicurare (“to tame”), from cicur (“tame”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪkjʊɹeɪt/

Verb

cicurate (third-person singular simple present cicurates, present participle cicurating, simple past and past participle cicurated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To tame, domesticate.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      even after carnal conversion, poisons may yet retain some portion of their natures; yet are they so refracted, cicurated, and subdued

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 cicurate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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