philosophate

From the participle stem of Latin philosophārī, from philosophus (“philosopher”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɪˈlɒsəfeɪt/

philosophate (third-person singular simple present philosophates, present participle philosophating, simple past and past participle philosophated)

1. (rare) To philosophize.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     If, as some say, to philosophate be to doubt; with much more reason, to rave and fantastiquize, as I doe, must necessarily be to doubt […].

   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury, translating Galileo Galilei, Dialogues on Two World Systems:

     Logick, as it is well understood, is the Organe with which we philosophate […].

philosophāte

1. vocative masculine singular of philosophātus