ominate

English

Etymology

From Latin ominatus, past participle of ominari (“to presage”), from omen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɒmɪneɪt/

Verb

ominate (third-person singular simple present ominates, present participle ominating, simple past and past participle ominated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.
    • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
      A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellowſhippe by nature, whereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes was predeſtinate to thee from thy ſwadling clothes.
    • 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “(please specify the page)”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC:
      But I cannot ominate so well touching this Congress

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ominate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

ōmināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ōminātus

Spanish

Verb

ominate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ominar combined with te
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