saginate
English
Verb
saginate (third-person singular simple present saginates, present participle saginating, simple past and past participle saginated)
- (archaic) to fatten
- 1791, William Cowper, Iliad:
- Many a white heifer by the ruthless steel
Lay bleeding, many a sheep and blatant goat,
With many a saginated boar bright-tusk'd
Amid fierce flames Vulcanian stretch'd to roast
Latin
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