explorate

English

Etymology

From Latin explorare, exploratum.

Verb

explorate (third-person singular simple present explorates, present participle explorating, simple past and past participle explorated)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Latin

Verb

explōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of explōrō

References
  • explorate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • explorate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • explorate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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