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English
Etymology
From Latin properatus, past participle of properare (“to hasten”).
Verb
properate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)
- (obsolete) To hasten or press forward.
1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors:For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.
1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton:That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.
1774, Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times:Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy.
Latin
Verb
properāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of properō