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"-ate"
Keywords:
participial
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participles
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propitious
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adjectives
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verb
As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
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As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to).
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Keywords:
sulphate
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nitric
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sulphuric
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nitrate
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halogen
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.
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Keywords:
curate
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dignity
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tribunate
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delegate
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suffix
As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
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