ablegate
/ˈæb.lə.ɡeɪt/
ÆB · lə · ɡeɪt (3 syllables)
English
Verb
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Definition
To send abroad.
Etymology
Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
Example Sentences
- "Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert."
- "The evil which you imav gine, therefore, is so far from being really felt, that we are now sufferers by the bad policy of our ancestors, in ablegating their poor to till the wilds of America; and maintaining them there at an enormous expence"
- "Couriers were ablegated from all points of the vicinage, to secure the adjuments of pharmacopolists, chirurgeons, and even of amethodists; but their prescriptions had no consimilitude."
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