Definition of Radicate

1. a. Radicated.

2. v. i. To take root; to become rooted.

3. v. t. To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.

Definition of Radicate

1. Verb. (rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly. ¹

2. Verb. (obsolete) To take root; to become established. ¹

3. Adjective. Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established. ¹

4. Adjective. (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Radicate

1. to cause to take root [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Radicate

1. To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. "Time should . . . Rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness." (Barrow) Origin: Radicated; Radicating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radicate

radicality
radicalizable
radicalization
radicalizations
radicalize
radicalized
radicalizes
radicalizing
radically
radicalness
radicalnesses
radicals
radicand
radicands
radicant
radicate (current term)
radicated
radicates
radicating
radication
radications
radicchio
radicchios
radicel
radicels
radices
radices craniales
radices nervi trigemini
radices spinales nervi accessorii
radicicol

Literary usage of Radicate

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

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"prehistoric Aryan form whence it would regularly be descended.' This makes it co-radicate with Cup and Coif; and the orig. sense would be 'vessel' or 'cup. ..."

2. Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston: His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a by Mark Napier (1834)
"In like manner hence it follows that a radicate with an uneven index has only one root, an abundant radicate an abundant root, and a defective radicate a ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"radicate, a. Deeply rooted, firmly established. Rake, я. Libertine, debauchee, man of pleasure Radix, M. [L.] Root, radical, etymon, primitive word ..."

4. Reminiscences of the "filibuster" War in Nicaragua by Charles William Doubleday (1886)
"We did not hesitate to pronounce it a trap that would be more fatal to its occupants than to the enemy, telling radicate that the recoil of his heavy guns ..."

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