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)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To rove; to 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 […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spatiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• apatites

Latin

Participle

spatiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of spatiātus