Coaptate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To join or attach. transitive

    "Female patients sometimes tell us that another woman enters her body and coaptates herself to it, especially during the act of coitus."

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"Female patients sometimes tell us that another woman enters her body and coaptates herself to it, especially during the act of coitus."

Etymology

First attested in 1649; either a back-formation from coaptation or directly borrowed from Late Latin coaptātus, perfect passive participle of coaptō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from co- + aptō (“to fasten”). Doublet of coapt.

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