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▪ I. malleate, a. Zool.|ˈmælɪət|
[ad. mod.L. malleāt-us, f. malleus.]
Furnished with a malleus.
1884C. T. Hudson in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXIV. 351. 1886 Hudson & Gosse Rotifera I. 31 Hydatinadæ..trophi malleate.
▪ II. malleate, v. Now rare.|ˈmælɪət|
[f. L. malleāt-, ppl. stem of malleāre, f. malle-us hammer.]
trans. To beat with a hammer; spec. to beat (metal) thin or flat.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 51/1 Allthoughe the same [corslet] be beaten and malleated smothe agayne. 1599― tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 113/2 Take it out, and malleate it till it wexe as thin as the backe of a knife. 1659Gauden Slight Healers (1660) 55 A crackt silver vessell, is sooner sodered and new burnished, then a new one malleated out of the rough mass or wedge of metal. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. v. i. 307 Tubal-Cain was..the first that found the Art of Melting and Malleating Metals.
absol.1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. (1701) 580/1 Some Metals,..by reason of the solidity they had acquired, might be made fit to malleate, or to strike, or for other uses.
fig.1627–47Feltham Resolves ii. xcix. 447 Many have been abused, by being malleated in their troublesome fear. 1660Gauden God's Gt. Demonstr. 18 Some points may by long Orations be (like gold) malleated and extended to such great latitudes of diffused expressions, as make them very combersom. 1647A. Farindon Serm. (1672) I. 413 We cannot find one [circumstance] which was not as a hammer to malleate and soften his stony heart. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. App. xxx, And pox and pestilence do malleate. |