debellate

English

Etymology

Latin debellatus, past participle of debellare (“to subdue”).

Verb

debellate (third-person singular simple present debellates, present participle debellating, simple past and past participle debellated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To subdue; to conquer in war.
    • John Speed, Historie of Great Britaine.
      Yet not to haue beene clearely debellated.
    • Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War.
      It doth notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages, in the approbation of the extirpating and debellating of giants, monsters, and foreign tyrants, not only as lawful, but as meritorious even of divine honour.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 debellate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

debellate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of debellare
  2. second-person plural imperative of debellare
  3. feminine plural of debellato

Latin

Verb

dēbellāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of dēbellō
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