dealbate

The verb is first attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēalbātus, perfect passive participle of dēalbō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Likely doublet of daub.

dealbate (third-person singular simple present dealbates, present participle dealbating, simple past and past participle dealbated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To whiten.
   • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:

     Medicks prescribe Dentifricies to exterge and dealbate the teeth

dealbate (comparative more dealbate, superlative most dealbate)

1. (botany) Whitened; covered with an opaque white powder.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• “dealbate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• dateable

dealbāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dealbō