Definition of Aggrate

1. v. t. To please.

Definition of Aggrate

1. Verb. (obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aggrate

1. to gratify [v AGGRATED, AGGRATING, AGGRATES] - See also: gratify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggrate

aggrandises
aggrandising
aggrandizable
aggrandization
aggrandizations
aggrandize
aggrandized
aggrandizement
aggrandizements
aggrandizer
aggrandizers
aggrandizes
aggrandizing
aggrate (current term)
aggrated
aggrates
aggrating
aggravate
aggravated
aggravatedly
aggravates
aggravating
aggravatingly
aggravation
aggravations
aggravative
aggravatives

Literary usage of Aggrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"To please or gratify. Sp., V. q, II, viii, 56. From whom whatever thing is goodly thought Doth borrow grace, the fancy to aggrate. AGHAST. Did frighten. ..."

2. A Paradise of English Poetry (1893)
"... state She with him lives and hath him born a child, Pleasure, that doth both gods and men aggrate,1 Pleasure, the daughter of Cupid and Psyche late. ..."

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