adorate

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English

Verb

adorate (third-person singular simple present adorates, present participle adorating, simple past and past participle adorated)

  1. To worship, adore.
    • 1787, “The Bhagvat-Geeta”, in Charles Wilkins, transl., The English Review, or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, page 98:
      The Maharſhees, holy bands, hail thee, and glorify thy name with adorating praiſes.
    • 1866, Charles St. John, Edward J. Wood, Cosmo Innes, Natural History & Sport in Moray, page 237:
      In the other is depicted the Crucifixion of Christ, who is represented as suffering between the two thieves, while the Maries are adorating below.
    • 1992, Joost Hazenbos, The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults During the Thirteenth Century B.C.: An Appraisal of the Hittite Cult Inventories, page 215:
      Five aspects of the cult easily adapt themselves to be measured, as they are treated often enough in the cult inventories: the number of gods adorated, [] .
    • 2005, Gary Clifford Gibson, Creation & Cosmos; the Literal Values of Genesis, page 155:
      In ancient times, and in modern times in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime, people were required, even unwillingly to adorate the main deity of a state religion as the government described it.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adorˈate/
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Adverb

adorate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of adori

Ido

Pronunciation

Verb

adorate

  1. adverbial present passive participle of adorar

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

adorate

  1. inflection of adorare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

adorate f pl

  1. feminine plural of adorato

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

adōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of adōrō

Spanish

Verb

adorate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of adorar combined with te