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religate

religate

English

Verb

religate ‎(third-person singular simple present religates, present participle religating, simple past and past participle religated)

  1. (surgery) To ligate again.

Etymology 2

See relegate ³.

Verb

religate ‎(third-person singular simple present religates, present participle religating, simple past and past participle religated)

  1. Obsolete spelling of relegate [17th century]

Latin

Verb

religāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of religō

Participle

religāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of religātus

Etymology

Partly from religāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Classical Latin religō ‎(“I bind back or behind”) and partly formed in English as re- +‎ ligate.

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