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English
Etymology
From Latin latibulum (“hiding place”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from lateō (“to lie hidden”) + -bulum. See also latibulize.
Verb
latibulate (third-person singular simple present latibulates, present participle latibulating, simple past and past participle latibulated)
- (archaic, obsolete, rare, figurative) To retreat and lie hidden; to hide in a corner.[1]
, 8th revised and enlarged edition, A. M.; sold by Andrew Crooke:Latibulate, Privily to hide ones self in a corner.]
1874 November 16, The Wheeling Daily Register, Wheeling, West Virginia, page 2, column 1:He is probably after the manner of his prototype Kellogg, "latibulating" in some secure position, in breathless expectancy that His Excellency, will again uphold usurpation […].
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