pregravate
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin praegravatus, past participle of praegravare (“to be heavy upon”), from praegravis (“very heavy”).
Verb
[edit]pregravate (third-person singular simple present pregravates, present participle pregravating, simple past and past participle pregravated)
- (rare) To bear down; to depress.
- 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:
- The clog that the body brings with it cannot but pregravate and trouble the soul in all her performances
- 1672, “The Crown of Righteousness”, in Θρηνοι̂κος: the House of Mourning, page 603:
- The clear s Vision of God, which they say is, tota merces, beholding him s face to face, namely, so far as a finite Being (for so our Humane Nature continues still, though glorified) may be capable to apprehend of that Majesty, which is Infinite, in this advanced condition, the Soul (which is here clogg'd, and drossy, and much pregravated by the Body, subject to corruption) shall beatifically see God, as he is, in the full fplendor of his immortal glory;
- 1718, Edward Strother, Criticon Febrium, Or, A Critical Essay on Fevers:
- Heavier Bodies pregravate
- 2013, B.G. Bergo, Levinas between Ethics and Politics, page 183:
- Indeed, the aporia shall become pregravated with an new enigma .
- 2024, Yağmur D. Kızılkoca, Bald Blind Cats:
- I think you shouldn't pregravate her .