cruentate

English

Etymology

Latin cruentatus, past participle of cruentare to make bloody, from cruentus bloody, from cruor. See crude.

Adjective

cruentate (comparative more cruentate, superlative most cruentate)

1. (obsolete) Smeared with blood.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     Atomical aporrheas […] passing from the cruentate cloth or weapon to the wound.

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Latin

Verb

cruentāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cruentō