What does "radicate" mean?

To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.

Radicate

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly. rare, transitive
2
To take root; to become established. intransitive, obsolete
"And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate"
3
To extract the root of a number. rare, transitive
"Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]"

Adjective

1
Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
2
Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
3
Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

"And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate"

From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).