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reluctate, v.|rɪˈlʌkteɪt|
[ad. L. reluctāt-, ppl. stem of reluctārī: see reluctant.]
1. intr. To offer resistance; to strive or struggle against something; to show reluctance.
1643T. Goodwin Return of Prayers 109 Halfe thy heart can take pleasure in sinning,..the other halfe reluctates, grieves for it. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. ii. §27 Having..something within him, which reluctated against those superstitions. 1820Silliman Tour fr. Hartford to Quebec 104 It would be shameful to reluctate at going where a man of seventy-five would lead. 1848H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. vi. 325 The sophist..strongly reluctates against..vulgar illustrations of so ‘noble’ a subject. 1872H. W. Beecher in Chr. World Pulpit II. 95/1 The child is commanded to do the thing that is right. He reluctates. He is punished.
b. To feel reluctance to do something. rare— 1.
1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iv. 148 Every dispassionate mind reluctates to admit a principle that seems so pregnant with mischief.
c. U.S. To recoil from a thing. rare—1.
a1865Wayland in Life (1868) II. x. 239 (Funk), I reluctate from all plans, especially all wise ones.
2. trans. To strive against, refuse, reject. rare.
1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace i. 12 That man's soul, whose thoughts reluctate, decline, or nauseate so holy and pure an object. a1703Burkitt On N.T. John xxi. 19 Human nature in Christ's ministers, as well as in other men, reluctates sufferings. 1854Hickok Mental Sci. iii. 101 The mind, that reluctates any emotion, directly evades all occasion for bringing that object into consciousness.
Hence reˈluctating ppl. a.
1667Decay Chr. Piety xvi. ⁋10 Men are fain to devise arguments and colours to delude their reluctating consciences. |