corrivate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corrīvātus, perfect passive participle of corrīvō (“to corrivate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- + rīvus + -ō.
Verb
corrivate (third-person singular simple present corrivates, present participle corrivating, simple past and past participle corrivated)
- (obsolete) To flow, or cause to flow, together, like water drawn from several streams.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:
- Veins are hollow and round, like pipes, arising from the liver, carrying blood and natural spirits; they feed all the parts. Of these there be two chief, vena porta and vena cava, from which the rest are corrivated.
Further reading
- “corrivate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.