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† paˈrentate, v. Obs.
[f. L. parentāt-, ppl. stem of parentāre, f. parent-em parent: see -ate3. Cf. F. parenter in same sense.]
intr. To celebrate the funeral rites of parents or relations; hence in general sense, to offer funeral obsequies.
1620Barret Ded. Southwell's Poems (Turnbull) 246 Not to perish unrevenged, they parentated to themselves, with the blood of the Senate. 1623Cockeram, Parentate, to celebrate ones parents funerals. 1654R. Codrington tr. Iustine xi. 159 He did parentate to the Tombs of those who fell in the Trojan war. Ibid. xxxix. 470 By her death [he] did parentate to the Ghosts of his wife. |