lachrymate

• lacrimate

From a medieval spelling of Latin lacrimātus, perfect passive participle of lacrimō, see +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).^[1] Alternatively, directly from Medieval Latin lachryma (“a tear”) +‎ -ate.

lachrymate (third-person singular simple present lachrymates, present participle lachrymating, simple past and past participle lachrymated)

1. (medicine or literary) To cry or weep.

From Medieval Latin lachryma +‎ -ate (adjectival suffix).^[2]

lachrymate (comparative more lachrymate, superlative most lachrymate)

1. (botany, paleontology) Having the shape of a tear.
   • 1888, James Hall with John M[ason] Clarke, “Phaëthonides cyclurus, n. sp.”, in Palæontology (Geological Survey of the State of New York), volumes VII ([…] Trilobites and Other Crustacea […]), Albany, N.Y.: Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, →OCLC, page 138:

     The cephalon shows traces of low pustules over the glabella, and upon the depressed frontal area, where they become elongate or lachrymate, sometimes anastomosing, leaving elongate depressions between them; […]

   • 1931, T[homas] N[eville] George, “Ambocœlia Hall”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume LXXXVII, London: Geological Society of London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:

     The location of the ventral muscle-scars is normal. In the dorsal valve, however, there is considerable variation, both in the shape of the scars and in their degree of depression into the shell; those of the outer pair vary between the simple lachrymate shape (Pl. V, fig. 6) and the subdivided tripartite condition such as is seen frequently in Crurithyris urei and Crurithyris magnispina.

   • 1967 June 28, H[arry] B[lackmore] Whittington, K[enton] S[tewart] W[all] Campbell, “Rhinotarion sentosum n. sp.”, in Silicified Silurian Trilobites from Maine (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; volume 135, number 9), Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, →OCLC, page 458, column 2:

     Lateral furrow Ip situated slightly in front of mid-length, narrow and deep, directed inward and backward and reaching the occipital furrow, deepest close to axial furrow; basal lobe lachrymate in outline, moderately convex.

2. (medicine or literary, rare) Stained or filled with tears.

   Synonym: tearful

   • 1510 [c. 1482], [Louis Cruse] (Middle French translation), translated by Robert Coplande, “How Kynge Appolyn of Thyre Sayled towarde the Cyte of Terme […]”, in Kynge Appolyn of Thyre, London: […] Wynkyn de worde, →OCLC, signature B.iij., verso:

     And whan he was out of the peryll of yͤ ſee he toꝛned hym towarde the place were as his ſhyppes ⁊ men were dꝛowned and with lachꝛymate chekes tẽderly he ſayd.

     [original: Et quant il fut hoꝛs du peril de mer il ſe tourna vers celle part ou les nefz ⸜ et ſes gens eſtoient perilz ⸜ en plourãt tendꝛement et en diſant]

   • 1914 November, Chester H. Elliott, “The Antigenic Properties of Glycoproteins”, in Ludvig Hektoen, Edwin O[akes] Jordan, editors, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 15, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 507:

     The animal does not become seriously ill, but scratches itself vigorously, is either very restless or very somnolent or both alternately, hair roughened, eyes usually lachrymate and partly closed.

   • 1996, Marjory E. Lange, “Tears in a Woman’s Voice, a Rider”, in Telling Tears in the English Renaissance (Studies in the History of Christian Thought; 70), Leiden; New York, N.Y.; Cologne: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 2 (“Out of My Pen No Inke but Teares”: The Poetic Miscellanies), page 107:

     Lachrymate and weeping motifs are typically present throughout all the volumes and display certain regular features, but they do not form a unilateral or monolithic image.