explorate
English
Etymology
From Latin explorare, exploratum.
Verb
explorate (third-person singular simple present explorates, present participle explorating, simple past and past participle explorated)
- (obsolete) To explore.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- they will nevertheleſs exclude their horns, and therewith explorate their way as before
References
- “explorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
References
- “explorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “explorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- explorate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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