-ate (&?;). [From the L. suffix
-atus, the past participle ending of verbs of the
1st conj.]
1. As an ending of
participles or participial
adjectives it is equivalent to - ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
2. 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).
3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as,
curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or
dignity; as, tribunate.
4. 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.
A"te (&?;), n. [Gr.
&?;.]
(Greek. Myth.)
The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
Ate (?; 277), the preterit of Eat.
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