insectator

English

Etymology

From Latin insectari (“to pursue”) , frequentative from insequi. See ensue.

Noun

insectator (plural insectators)

  1. (obsolete) A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 insectator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

insectātor

  1. second-person singular future active imperative of insector
  2. third-person singular future active imperative of insector

References
  • insectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • insectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • insectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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