Definition of Individuate

1. Verb. Give individual character to.

Generic synonyms: Characterise, Characterize
Derivative terms: Individuation, Individuation

2. Verb. Give individual shape or form to. "Language that individuates his memories"
Generic synonyms: Form, Shape
Derivative terms: Individuation

Definition of Individuate

1. a. Undivided.

2. v. t. To distinguish from others of the species; to endow with individuality; to divide into individuals; to discriminate.

Definition of Individuate

1. Verb. To make, or cause to appear, individual. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Individuate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Individuate

individualists
individualities
individuality
individualizable
individualization
individualizations
individualize
individualized
individualizer
individualizers
individualizes
individualizing
individuall
individually
individuals
individuate (current term)
individuated
individuates
individuating
individuation
individuation field
individuations
individuative
individuator
individuators
individuity
individuum
individuums
indivinity
indivisibilities

Literary usage of Individuate

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

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"... 'of Mourgue is one marriage to every 11? individuate, of the population) tends to corroborate this fact, ..."

2. A Treatise on Criminal Procedure by Francis Wharton, James Manford Kerr (1918)
"... amounting in the whole to, etc., and of the value of, etc., of the goods and chattels," etc.3 § 256. CERTAINTY MUST BE SUCH AS TO individuate OFFENSE. ..."

3. M'Culloch's Universal Gazetteer: A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical by John Ramsay McCulloch, Daniel Haskel (1843)
"... of individuate, principally of Males of 20 Years of Age and upwards, [n different Departments of Industry in Great Britain and Ireland, according to the ..."

4. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"To individuate, to distinguish from others of the same species ... Undivided, individuate, nut broken иг separated into parts. ..."

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