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Decurtate
Definitions
- 1 Shortened, curtailed. rare
"Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets."
- 1 To cut short. archaic, rare, transitive
"Other writers there are, that would haue him signifie Tyme, as that with his sythe he should measure and proportionise the length of Time, and therewith to decurtate and cut away all things contained therein."
Etymology
First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt.
First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt.
See also for "decurtate"
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