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▪ I. † inˈdubitate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. indubitāt-us, f. in- (in-3) + dubitāt-us, pa. pple. of dubitāre to doubt.]
Undoubted, certain.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlix. (1482) 318 Eugenye the fourth was pesybly chosen in rome by the Cardynals, and was very and indubytate pope. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxxiii. 101 He shuld there shewe and proue yt he was the indubitat sone of y⊇ first Clothayre. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 73 The very indubitate heyre general to the crowne of Fraunce. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §16. 281 Such Monuments of Pagan Antiquity, as are altogether unsuspected and indubitate.
Hence † inˈdubitately adv., undoubtedly, unquestionably, without doubt.
1538Leland Itin. I. 92 Howbeit the hole Chirch that now standith indubitately was made sins the Conquest. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. xxiii. 227 They..are indubitately assur'd of the Truth, and comparative excellency of their receptions.
▪ II. † inˈdubitate, v.1 Obs. rare.
[f. in-2 + L. dubitāt-us doubted: see prec.]
trans. To render doubtful or uncertain; to call in question.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. x. 42 He [the Devil] would make men beleeve there is no such creature as him⁓selfe..and contriveth accordingly many wayes to conceale or indubitate his existency. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. ix. 502 He..might with good reason be judg'd troublesome and impertinent for indubitating a thing of so constant credit.
▪ III. † inˈdubitate, v.2 Obs. rare—0.
[f. in-3 + L. dubitāre to doubt; cf. dubitate v.]
‘To doubt nothing at all’ (Cockeram, 1623). |
