FromLatinmācerātus, perfect passive participle ofmācerō, fromProto-Indo-European*mag-,*mak-(“toknead”),[1] whencemake.
- Verb
- Noun
macerate (third-person singular simple presentmacerates,present participlemacerating,simple past and past participlemacerated)
- Tosoften (something) orseparate it into pieces bysoaking it in a heated or unheatedliquid.
- (archaic) To makelean; to cause towaste away.
- 2006,David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, inBlack Ships Ate the Sky, performed byCurrent 93:
- Baal scuttles with ten tails
Between as many legs as he could carry—
Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes
And finding resolution beyond the scales
And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
Immaculatelymacerated God.
- (obsolete) Tosubdue theappetite bypoor orscantydiet; tomortify.
- (obsolete) Tomortify theflesh in general.
1820,[Charles Robert Maturin],Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […],→OCLC,page243:“My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I wasmacerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.
to soften or separate by immersion in a liquid
to make lean, cause to waste away
to subdue the appetite by a poor diet
macerate (pluralmacerates)
- A macerated substance.
- IPA(key): /ma.t͡ʃeˈra.te/
- Rhymes:-ate
- Hyphenation:ma‧ce‧rà‧te
macerate
- inflection ofmacerare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
macerate f pl
- feminineplural ofmacerato
mācerāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofmācerātus
macerate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofmacerar combined withte
