sublate

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Etymology

From Latin sublatum, past participle of suffero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌbˈleɪt/, /səˈbleɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

sublate (third-person singular simple present sublates, present participle sublating, simple past and past participle sublated)

1. (transitive, logic) To negate, deny or contradict.
2. (transitive) To take or carry away; to remove.
   • a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:

     The aucthores of ye mischiefe [were] sublated and plucked awaye.

Related terms

• sublation
• suffer
• suffering

Adjective

sublate

1. (botany) Such that the ovary has a support, real or apparent.
   • 1961, Gazetteer of Bombay State: Miscellaneous plants, page 219:

     Ovary 2-celled; style short, thick, sublate; stigma large, peltate.

Anagrams

• ablutes, balteus, tabsule, abustle

Latin

Participle

sublāte

1. vocative masculine singular of sublātus

References

• “sublate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sublate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sublate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.