prodigate
English
Verb
prodigate (third-person singular simple present prodigates, present participle prodigating, simple past and past participle prodigated)
- (archaic, transitive) To squander.
- Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter LXIII:
- His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten.
- Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter LXIII:
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 prodigate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Italian
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