attaminate

English

Etymology

From Latin attaminare; ad + root of tangere. See contaminate.

Verb

attaminate (third-person singular simple present attaminates, present participle attaminating, simple past and past participle attaminated)

  1. (obsolete) To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 attaminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

attāmināte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of attāminō
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