dealbate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dealbatus, past participle of dealbare. See daub.

Verb

dealbate (third-person singular simple present dealbates, present participle dealbating, simple past and past participle dealbated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To whiten.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dealbate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

dealbāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dealbō
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