feminate

First attested circa 1533; borrowed from Latin fēminātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

feminate (comparative more feminate, superlative most feminate)

1. (obsolete) Feminine; (also) effeminate, womanish.
   • 1629, John Ford, The Broken Heart, act 5 acene 3:

     a feminate authority

• “feminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

fēmināte

1. vocative masculine singular of fēminātus

femināte

1. vocative masculine singular of feminātus

femināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of feminō