corrivate
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English
Etymology
From Latin corrivatus, past participle of corrivare (“to corrivate”).
Verb
corrivate (third-person singular simple present corrivates, present participle corrivating, simple past and past participle corrivated)
- (obsolete) To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:
- Veins are hollow and round, like pipes, arising from the liver, carrying blood and natural spirits; they feed all the parts. Of these there be two chief, vena porta and vena cava, from which the rest are corrivated.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “corrivate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)