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Webster 1913 Edition

Corrivate

Cor′ri-vate

(k?r′r?-v?t)
,
Verb.
T.
[L.
corrivatus
, p. p. of
corrivare
to corrivate.]
To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.
[Obs.]
Burton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Corrivate

CORRIVATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. Con and rivus.] To draw water out of several streams into one. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

corrivate

corrivate

English

Verb

corrivate ‎(third-person singular simple present corrivates, present participle corrivating, simple past and past participle corrivated)

  1. (obsolete) To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.1.2.iii:
      Veins are hollow and round, like pipes, arising from the liver, carrying blood and natural spirits; they feed all the parts. Of these there be two chief, vena porta and vena cava, from which the rest are corrivated.

Etymology

From Latin corrivatus, past participle of corrivare ‎(“to corrivate”).

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