INGEMINATE

repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell

(verb) to say, state, or perform again; “She kept reiterating her request”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)

(transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.

Adjective

ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)

redoubled

reiterated

Anagrams

• matineeing

Source: Wiktionary


In*gem"i*nate, a. Etym: [L. ingeminatus, p. p.]

Definition: Redoubled; repeated. Jer. Taylor.

In*gem"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingeminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingeminating.] Etym: [L. ingeminatus, p. p. of ingeminare to double; pref. in- in + geminare. See Geminate.]

Definition: To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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