properate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin properatus, past participle of properare (to hasten).

Verb

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properate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)

  1. (obsolete) To hasten or press forward.
    • 1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors[1]:
      For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.
    • 1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton[2]:
      That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.
    • 1774, Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times[3]:
      Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy.

Latin

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Verb

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properāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of properō