-itate

Definitions

Forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.

morpheme, rare

Examples

“[A]fter that the land⟳ doth trent Westward, as may be suspected by the want⟳ of ice, that the land⟳, being farre remote to the North or West, the Sea doth keepe it selfe from frigitating by its continuall chafing and adjectating, as we see⟳ by the iles of Farre, Shetland, and Orkney, standing in and neere the same parallell with our frozen Fretum Hudson, where no Snow⟳ will lie⟳ for any time in Winter.”

CEFR level