sublate

English

Etymology

From Latin sublatum, past participle of suffero.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʌbˈleɪt/, /səˈbleɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

sublate (third-person singular simple present sublates, present participle sublating, simple past and past participle sublated)

  1. (transitive, logic) To negate, deny or contradict.
  2. (transitive) To take or carry away; to remove.
    • a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, [], London: [] Richardi Graftoni [], published 1548, →OCLC:
      The aucthores of ye mischiefe [were] sublated and plucked awaye.

Adjective

sublate

  1. (botany) Such that the ovary has a support, real or apparent.
    • 1961, Gazetteer of Bombay State: Miscellaneous plants, page 219:
      Ovary 2-celled; style short, thick, sublate; stigma large, peltate.

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

sublāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of sublātus

References

  • sublate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sublate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sublate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.