imperate

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English

Etymology

From Latin imperātus, past participle of imperō (“I command”). Doublet of mpret.

Pronunciation

Adjective

imperate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, , published 1677, →OCLC:
      those Imperate acts before spoken of wherein we see the immediate empire of the Soul.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “imperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Ido

Pronunciation

Verb

imperate

  1. adverbial present passive participle of imperar

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

imperate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

imperate f pl

  1. feminine plural of imperato

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

imperāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of imperō

Spanish

Verb

imperate

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