invulnerate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1680; borrowed from Latin invulnerātus (“unwounded”), from in- (“not”) +‎ vulnerātus see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

invulnerate (comparative more invulnerate, superlative most invulnerate)

1. (obsolete) Invulnerable.
   • 1721, Samuel Butler, Satire upon marriage:

     For horns (like horny callouses) are found / to grow on sculls that have receiv'd a wound, / are crackt, and broken; not at all on those / that are invulnerate and free from blows.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “invulnerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Adjective

invulnerate

1. feminine plural of invulnerato