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▪ I. radicate, a.|ˈrædɪkət|
[ad. L. rādīcāt-us, pa. pple. of rādīcāre: see next and -ate2.]
†1. Rooted, deep-seated, firmly established. Obs.
1656H. More Enthus. Tri. (1712) 27 Their settled and radicate ignorance. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxiv. 643 The Cleansing of their Radicate Sores. 1768Whitaker Two Serm. ii. (1770) 39 We..have found it..innate, and radicate in the heart.
†2. radicate vinegar: (see radical a. 9). Obs.
1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 571/1 Spirit of Vinegar may also be made radicate, and more strong if it be distilled anew upon Sal-armoniack. Ibid., The Uses of the terebinthinated or radicate Vinegar.
3. Bot. Having a root (Treas. Bot. 1866).
▪ II. radicate, v. Now rare.|ˈrædɪkeɪt|
Also 6 radycate, pa. pple. 5–6 radicate, 6 Sc. -cait.
[ad. L. rādīcāt-, ppl. stem of rādīcāre or rādīcārī to take root, f. rādīc- radix.]
1. trans. To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly. Usually fig. with reference to qualities. Const. in.
a. passively, in pa. pple. (orig. in form radicate).
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. Prol. viii, Lust and appetyte..in thair myndis sa fast is radicate. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. v, He beinge radicate in pride..continued his way to the Senate. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 151 Venus Quene, quhair his hart Radicait Was on all time. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 264 No doubt the originall cause of religious change, came..to be radicated in the mournefull effects we now behold. 1676Cole in Phil. Trans. XI. 609, I should think the upper of them to be radicated..at the pylorus. 1775Johnson Let. to Boswell 14 Sept., My regard for you is so radicated and fixed, that it is become part of my mind. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible ii. (1874) 93 These [actions] will want that quality which can alone crown them, if not radicated in religious principle.
b. actively (less freq. than prec.).
1531Elyot Gov. i. iv, Often remembrance..of their estate may happen to radycate in theyr hartes intollerable pride. 1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 6 By radicating or making more firme Graces receiued. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. xi. 285 Radicate thy Love within me, O my God, Let it be Rooted Deep. 1788Burke Sp. Warren Hastings Wks. 1822 XIII. 65 That gulf, which manners, opinions and laws have radicated in the very nature of the people. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible i. (1874) 23 Philosophers who did not care to radicate it [morality] in religion.
†2. intr. To take root, become established. Obs.
1656in Blount Glossogr. 1681Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 134 Trees began there to radicate where but lately a shrub wanted moisture. |
