spatiate

English

Etymology

Latin spatiātus, past participle of spatior (“walk around, spread out”), from spatium (“space, room”). Compare spaziare, spazieren.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪʃi.eɪt/

Verb

spatiate (third-person singular simple present spatiates, present participle spatiating, simple past and past participle spatiated)

(obsolete, intransitive) To rove or ramble.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move
- c. 1713, Isaac Watts, A Hymn of Praise for Recovery:
  My spirit feels her freedom, shakes her wings, / Exults and spatiates o'er a thousand scenes […]
- 1759, Richard Hurd, Moral and Political Dialogues:
  […] spatiating, at their leisure, in shady walks and porticos […]

References

“spatiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

apatites

Latin

Participle

spatiāte

vocative masculine singular of spatiātus