calamistrate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calamistrātus, perfect passive participle of calamistrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

calamistrate (third-person singular simple present calamistrates, present participle calamistrating, simple past and past participle calamistrated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
      Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up […], to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers […].

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

calamistrāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of calamistrātus
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