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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,965 words match “RATE”

ODORATE a.
Odorous. [Obos.] Bacon.
ONERATE v.
To load; to burden. [Obs.] Becon.
OPERATE v. 7 definitions
effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. The virtues of private persons operate but on a few. Atterbury. A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift.
OPPIGNERATE v.
To pledge; to pawn. [Obs.] Bacon.
OVERRATE v. 2 definitions
To rate or value too highly.
OVERSATURATE v.
To saturate to excess.
OXALURATE n.
A salt of oxaluric acid.
OXYCRATE n.
A Mixture of water and vinegar. Wiseman.
PALPEBRATE a.
Having eyelids.
PANDURATE; PANDURIFORM a.
Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.
PASTORATE n.
The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.
PENETRATE v. 4 definitions
; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
PERAGRATE v.
To travel over or through. [Obs.]
PERCHLORATE n.
A salt of perchloric acid.
PERFORATE v.
nted instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.
PERFORATE; PERFORATED a.
Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
PERFUNCTURATE v.
To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently. [R.]
PERORATE v.
To make a peroration; to harangue. [Colloq.]
PERPETRATE v.
ommonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. What the worst perpetrate, or best endure. Young.
PHOSPHORATE v.
To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil.
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