rabiate

rabiate (not comparable)

1. (rare) rabid; affected with rabies
   • 1856, George Raymond, Drafts for Acceptance:

     Most men are rabiate on some subject; but the stricken of poetry, is a seraphic malady.

   • 2014, Floris Overduin, Nicander of Colophon's Theriaca: A Literary Commentary, page 132:

     Doubtlessly inspired by Nicander he, or rather someone else whose work is transmitted under his name, wrote a Theriaca (Περί ίοβόλων, έν ὧ χαί περί λυσσόντοςχυνός, 'On poison-injecting animals, including rabiate dogs') and an Alexipharmaca,,,

   • 2019, Aynur Simsek, Hasan Icen, Metin Gurcay, Akin Kochan, Ozgur Yasar Celik, “Spatial Distribution of Rabies in Wild Animals in East and Southeast Anatolia Regions of Turkey, 2010-2015”, in IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, volume 12, issue 1, series II, page 52:

     The virus enters the body as the rabiate animal bites the organism and moves through the neurons towards the central nervous system with a preference for the cerebrum and the cerebellum (centripedal [sic] involvement), and from here they move through the peripheral nerves to infect the salivary glands and other end organs.

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rabiate

1. inflection of rabiat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

rabiate

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