hebetate

English

Etymology

Latin hebetatus, past participle of hebetare (“to dull”).

Pronunciation
  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈhɛbɪtət/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /ˈhɛbɪteɪt/

Adjective

hebetate (comparative more hebetate, superlative most hebetate)

  1. obtuse; dull
  2. (botany) Having a dull or blunt and soft point[1]

Verb

hebetate (third-person singular simple present hebetates, present participle hebetating, simple past and past participle hebetated)

  1. (transitive) To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt.
    • 1829, Robert Southey, “Colloquy VI. Walla Crag.—Owen of Lanark.”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 128:
      […] whenever a state shall duly exercise its parental duties, there will surely be none which shall either wholly hebetate the faculties or harden the heart.

References
  1. 1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology
  • hebetate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Participle

hebetāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of hebetātus
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