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Osculate

//ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to kissing. not-comparable
Verb
  1. 1
    To kiss. ambitransitive

    "And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell."

  2. 2
    touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
  4. 4
    have at least three points in common with wordnet
  5. 5
    To make contact. intransitive
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  1. 6
    be intermediate between two taxonomic groups wordnet
  2. 7
    To perform osculation. Vedic
  3. 8
    To form a connecting link between two genera.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōsculum (“a kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). Doublet of oscillate.

Etymology 2

From Latin ōsculātus.

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