latibulate

English

Etymology

From Latin latibulum (“hiding place”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix), from lateō (“to lie hidden”) +‎ -bulum. See also latibulize.

Verb

latibulate (third-person singular simple present latibulates, present participle latibulating, simple past and past participle latibulated)

1. (archaic, obsolete, rare, figurative) To retreat and lie hidden; to hide in a corner.
   • [1658, H. C. (Gent.), The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English words ...‎^[1], 8th revised and enlarged edition, A. M.; sold by Andrew Crooke:

     Latibulate, Privily to hide ones self in a corner.]

   • 1874 November 16, The Wheeling Daily Register, Wheeling, West Virginia, page 2, column 1:

     He is probably after the manner of his prototype Kellogg, "latibulating" in some secure position, in breathless expectancy that His Excellency, will again uphold usurpation […].