saginate

English

Verb

saginate (third-person singular simple present saginates, present participle saginating, simple past and past participle saginated)

  1. (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

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Latin

Verb

sagīnāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of sagīnō
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