Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

erugate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eru-gate
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To remove wrinkles from.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[page 694:] […] and erugates the belly after birth. [page 737:] […] old Hags, to erugate or emend their Faces; herein following the prudence of Galen, though a Pagan, who disallows of not onely the Painting of Faces, but the Tinctures of Hair; […]"
"It purgeth and erugates the face, […]"
"Ichthyocolla, (Greek) a kind of glew […] it is […] mixed with glutinative Salves, and others that take away spots and erugate the face."

Etymology

From Latin ērūgō, ērūgātus.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ērūgō

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

erugates (present, singular) erugating (participle, present) erugated (participle, past) erugated (past)

Questions

What does erugate mean?: To remove wrinkles from.
Where does erugate come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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