deligate

First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin dēligātus, perfect passive participle of dēligō (“to bind up”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

deligate (third-person singular simple present deligates, present participle deligating, simple past and past participle deligated)

1. (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
   • 1851, The Medical examiner, and record of medical science: Volume 7, page 322:

     Every one is aware of the uncertainty as well as great danger of the different cutting and deligating operations for the removal of this distressing infirmity.

• deligation

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

dēligāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēligō

dēligāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēligātus