ingeminate

Verb

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Verb (1)ingeminated, ingeminating

  1. to say, state, or perform again“She kept reiterating her request”Synonyms: repeatreiterateiteraterestateretellMore general tellMore specific quote, sum up, translate, paraphrase, harp, ditto, perseverate
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

In·gem′i·nate adjective

Origin: L. ingeminatus, p. p.

Redoubled; repeated. Taylor, Jeremy


In·gem′i·nate transitive verb [past tense & past participle Ingeminated; present participle & verbal noun Ingeminating.]

Origin: L. ingeminatus, p. p. of ingeminare to double; pref. in- in + geminare. See Geminate.

To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon

... She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates.— George Sandys

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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