assiduate
English
Etymology
From Latin assiduātus, past participle of assiduō (“to apply constantly”).
Adjective
assiduate (comparative more assiduate, superlative most assiduate)
- (obsolete) unremitting, requiring a lot of effort
- 1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin Surnamed Ambrosius:
- […] the queen made assiduate labour for the delivery of the king, her husband, promising he would surrender the whole land into her possession […]
- (obsolete) assiduous
References
- “assiduate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
assiduāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of assiduō