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English
Etymology
Latin spatiātus, past participle of spatior (“walk around, spread out”), from spatium (“space, room”). Compare spaziare, spazieren.
Pronunciation
Verb
spatiate (third-person singular simple present spatiates, present participle spatiating, simple past and past participle spatiated)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To rove; to ramble.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move
c. 1713, Isaac Watts, A Hymn of Praise for Recovery:My spirit feels her freedom, shakes her wings, / Exults and spatiates o'er a thousand scenes […]
1759, Richard Hurd, Moral and Political Dialogues:[…] spatiating, at their leisure, in shady walks and porticos […]
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Latin
Participle
spatiāte
- vocative masculine singular of spatiātus