sublate
English
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)
- (transitive, logic) To negate, deny or contradict.
- (transitive) To take or carry away; to remove.
- 1550, Edward Hall, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC:
- The aucthores of ye mischiefe [were] sublated and plucked awaye.
Latin
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.
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