delibate

First attested in 1623; Borrowed from Latin dēlibātus, perfect passive participle of dēlibō (“to take away from, to taste from”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + libō (“to taste; to consecrate a liquid”).

delibate (third-person singular simple present delibates, present participle delibating, simple past and past participle delibated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To taste; to take a sip of.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To dabble in.

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

• editable

delibate

1. inflection of delibare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

delibate f pl

1. feminine plural of delibato

dēlībāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēlībō