radicate meaning (rare): definition, etymology and quotations

radicate

verb

Etymology From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Rare To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.

Obsolete To take root; to become established.

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Arithmetic Rare To extract the root of a number.

Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36:

adj

Etymology From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.