sublate

English

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.
   • 1550, Edward Hall, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC:

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

Related terms

• sublation
• suffer
• suffering

Anagrams

• ablutes, abustle, batules, tabsule

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.