ingeminate
English
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- (verb) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.neɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/
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Verb
ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)
- (transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:
- we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]
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Adjective
ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)
- redoubled
- 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:
- It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement
- reiterated
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