What does egerminate mean?
Egerminate means (obsolete, rare) To germinate..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(obsolete, rare) To germinate..
There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue.
[…] ἐκφύῃ, in subjunct. present,—others read ἐκφυῇ, which is the subjunct. of ἐξεφύην, a later form of the aor. 2 for ἐξέφυν (intrans. as also the perf.), to egerminate, shoot out, put forth, i. e. the leaves put forth.
It was a small building[…]; its worn-out walls were covered with the multifoliate ivy, which extended its egerminating branches from the south end of the church[…]
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Egerminate means (obsolete, rare) To germinate..
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There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue.
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