naufragate

English

Etymology

From Latin naufragium (“shipwreck”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

naufragate (third-person singular simple present naufragates, present participle naufragating, simple past and past participle naufragated)

1. (obsolete, rare, ergative) To wreck (something).
   • 1660, Thomas Fuller, A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace‎^[1],  […] John Williams  […], page 48:

     All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity, constancy, and activity, in our several stations, with our lives and fortunes, to prosecute and accomplish, to our powers, by all just and legal wayes, with what ever else may conduce to the Peace, Safety, Unitie, Wealth, Prosperity of our Lacerated, Macerated, Naufragated Church and State; […]

   • 1660, Edward Reynolds, The Meanes and Method of Healing in the Church,  […] Tho. Ratcliffe, for George Thomason, page 24:

     […] the reſtoring of collapſed Honour to the Nations, and of juſt Rights to all orders therein; ( which have been ſo many years obſtruded) the reviving of Trade, the eaſing of Preſſures,the reducing of theſe wofully toſſed and naufragated Kingdoms unto Calmneſs and Serenity again, […]

   • 1661, John Godolphin, chapter I, in Συνήγορος θαλασσιος. A Vievv of the Admiral Jurisdiction, London, page 7:

     And therefore although Gretſerus [k] be pleas'd to be diſpleas'd with this derivation thereof, yet it is ſuppoſed that others without the leaſt hazard of Naufragating their Art of Gloſſographie, may ſecurely caſt Anchor and ſafely acquieſce therein.

   • 1673, John Hickes, A Discourse of the Excellency of the Heavenly Substance, London, page 28:

     And very few, if any, would they but weight aright, the vaſt diſproportion that is betwixt their preſent earthly ſhadows and this moſt subſtancial bleſſedneſs, would ever turn their backs on Chriſt, or Naufragate, and make Shipwrack of the Faith, to ſecure the former, and hereby deprive themſelves to eternity of the latter.

   • 1850, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VI, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, page 87:

     Clench's English, is of a piece with his Tuscan. For example, "Peter signifies an inexpugnable rock, able to evacuate all the plots of hell's divan, and naufragate all the lurid designs of empoisoned heretics."

   • 1993, Jacques Berleur, Colin Beardon, Romain Laufer, editors, Facing the Challenge of Risk and Vulnerablity in an Information Society:  […], IFIP, page 304:

     Among others^{[sic – meaning other]} lessons that could be derived from the Gulf War, this event showed the inner limits to ICT propaganda. The attempt to legitimise the war and to make it morally more acceptable by people because, thanks to ICT, it was an entirely new type of war, i.e. a “clean” and “quick” war without human killing naufragated clamorously, not only for the shame of military establishment but also of media that uncritically supported and propagated such a claim.

Related terms

• naufragous

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

naufragate

1. inflection of naufragare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

naufragate f pl

1. feminine plural of naufragato

Latin

Verb

naufragāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of naufragō

Spanish

Verb

naufragate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of naufragar combined with te