properate

English

Etymology

From Latin properatus, past participle of properare (“to hasten”).

Verb

properate (third-person singular simple present properates, present participle properating, simple past and past participle properated)

1. (obsolete) To hasten or press forward.
   • 1725, James Sedgwick, A New Treatise on Liquors‎^[1]:

     For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks.

   • 1733, William Warburton, An Apology for Sir Robert Sutton‎^[2]:

     That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.

   • 1774, Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times‎^[3]:

     Misocapelus, Captator, Eubulus, and Quisquilius properated before, with a rapid oscitancy.

Latin

Verb

properāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of properō