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English
Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin philosophārī, from philosophus (“philosopher”).
Pronunciation
Verb
philosophate (third-person singular simple present philosophates, present participle philosophating, simple past and past participle philosophated)
- (rare) To philosophize.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:If, as some say, to philosophate be to doubt; with much more reason, to rave and fantastiquize, as I doe, must necessarily be to doubt […].
1661, Galileo Galilei, translated by Thomas Salusbury, Dialogues on Two World Systems:Logick, as it is well understood, is the Organe with which we philosophate […].
Latin
Participle
philosophāte
- vocative masculine singular of philosophātus