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单词 invirtuate
释义

invirtuatev.

Forms: Also 1600s invertuate.
Etymology: formed as invirtue v. + -ate suffix3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: inˈvirtuate.
rare.
transitive.
a. To make virtuous.
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society > morality > virtue > [verb (transitive)]
invirtuate1641
envirtue1692
virtuefy1768
virtuize1828
1641 Ld. Digby Speech Trienn. Parl. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 149 Where is the Legislative Authority?.. In the King circled in, and invertuated by his Parliament.
b. To endow with virtue or power.
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society > authority > power > make powerful [verb (transitive)]
to set up1387
ablec1425
fortify1470
strengthen1541
power1592
empower1643
invirtuate1650
the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious for [verb (transitive)] > render efficacious
fortify1617
virtuate1632
invirtuate1821
1650 J. Jones Judges Judged 112 Law it self..invirtuateth, dignifieth, and authorizeth her true servants to execute her precepts.
1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 257 They stir and invirtuate the sphere next below them.
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