preparate meaning (rare): definition, etymology and quotations

preparate

verb

Etymology From Middle English preparaten, from preparat + -en, from Medieval Latin preparātus, perfect passive participle of preparō. Equivalent to prepare + -ate (verb-forming suffix). In some recent uses, probably back-formation from preparation. Compare prepare, from Middle French.

Rare To prepare.

Obsolete or non-native speakers' English

In like maner preperate Oripigment.1569, R. Androse, translation of Alexius Pedemontanus' Secretes, volume 4th, ii, page 54:
Notes about the materials required and methods used to preparate the adjuvant.2000, Trends in Biotechnol, volume 18 511/3:

preparate

adj

Etymology From Middle English preparat, from Medieval Latin preparātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Rare prepared

All thynges, were redy preparate.circa 1513, Henry Bradshaw (poet), Lyfe of St. Werburge (1521), volume i.xxix. sig. k.ii:
Finally the cat extended a preparate paw for the kill.1947, Malcolm Lowry, “v. 140”, in Under the Volcano: