to publicate
Pete
As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it?
What does it mean then?
Thanks for your help!
Peter
Torkel Franzen
> As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it?
> What does it mean then?
It is the past tense of "publiceat", that is, "eat in public". For
example, "Goodness gracious me! I accidentally publicate a cat, and
now all the cat people are after me."
Don Phillipson
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> As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it?
> What does it mean then?
Not in the dictionary, this is a back-formation
or new coinage or simply an error. If you cannot
guess its meaning you must ask the person
who invented the wrd.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Pete
when I tried to verify that at www.webster.com I was told:
Main Entry: publicate
publicate is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at
Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com.
That's why I thought that there actually is a meaning. (And unfortunately
I'm not a subscriber of the webster site.)
Furthermore, google produces 702 hits for to publicate.
"Don Phillipson" <d.phil...@ttrryytteell.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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John Dean
It *is* a synonym for "publish" but OED regards it as obsolete -the
most recent cite is 200 years ago.
Of course, it lives on in "publication".
--
John Dean
Oxford
Martin Ambuhl
> Hi everybody!
>
> As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it?
> What does it mean then?
To collect taxes while serving pints.
Martin Ambuhl
> "Pete" <wolff...@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:cpuqek$8pu$03$1...@news.t-online.com...
>
>
>>As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it?
>>What does it mean then?
>
>
> Not in the dictionary,
Tell it to Oxford. It's in the _Shorter Oxford English Dictionary_ as
well as the _OED_.
> this is a back-formation
> or new coinage or simply an error.
Tell it to Oxford. They date it from the Mid 16th century and traced
from the Latin root. If you think that's a new coinage or
back-formation, you have simply made an error:
[SOED5]
†publicate, verb trans.
M16–E19.
[from Latin publicat-: see PUBLICATION, -ATE3.]
Publish, make (something) publicly known.
[OED2]
†'publicate, v.
[f. L. publicat-, ppl. stem of publicare to publish.]
trans. To publish, make publicly known.
1540 in Hall Chron., Hen. VIII (1548) 246b, Many other errors holden,
saied, publicated and taught by hym.
1659 Gauden Tears of Ch. i. xiv. 115 Little sins in them [the
Clergy], (if publicated) grow great by their scandall and
contagion.
1745 Fielding True Patriot No. 7 Wks. 1775 IX. 300, I have
communicated my thoughts to you thereon, which you may suppress
or publicate as you think meet.
1808 Southey Lett. (1856) II. 66 The ‘Monthly Review’ publicates me
and Duppa as being one D. Manuel.
> If you cannot
> guess its meaning you must ask the person
> who invented the wrd.
I doubt very much that you can ask the person who invented the "wrd"
unless you have access to a spiritualist.
raymond o'hara
It sounds like a Bushism.