decurtate
English
Verb
decurtate (third-person singular simple present decurtates, present participle decurtating, simple past and past participle decurtated)
- (archaic, rare, transitive) To cut short.
- 1973, Sōji Iwasaki, The Sword and the Word: Shakespeare's Tragic Sense of Time, page 15:
- 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.
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Italian
Verb
decurtate
- inflection of decurtare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
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