corrivate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corrīvātus, perfect passive participle of corrīvō (to corrivate) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- +‎ rīvus +‎ .

Verb

corrivate (third-person singular simple present corrivates, present participle corrivating, simple past and past participle corrivated)

  1. (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.

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