Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having eyes; provided with eyes.
- Having spots resembling eyes; specifically, in botany, ocellate.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Furnished with eyes.
- adj. Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.
Etymologies
- Latin oculatus, from oculus eye. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Though far from showy, they appeal to the educated eye for appreciation of their blue and purple oculate flowers.”
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
“Carlos Finlay, trying to prove that mosquitoes carried yellow fever, had made about a hundred experimental efforts to in - oculate human beings.”
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]
“He would be kind to me, he said, and would een-oculate me; yes, that is his word -- een-oculate me, so that no poison could ever harm me.”
“oculate scelte di acquisizioni oddPost, Flickr, solide basi finanziarie e operative, il gossip giusto sulla blogosfera…”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oculate’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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see ulater, alligator
Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
discombobulate, undulate, perambulate, ululate, tabulate, postulate, particulate, articulate, inarticulate, populate, manipulate, capitulate and 95 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Anatomy
Words pertaining to the human body, its form, functions, and movements.
rump, axilla, nates, wick, dorsal, shank, coccyx, iliac, haunch, oculate, priapic, tumescent and 9 more...
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To See or View
Verbs meaning see or view
observe, inspect, spectate, oculate, perceive, detect, circumspect
Tweets
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kulwantnagi oh yeah !! check http://www.bloggingcage.com/ Mar 5, 2012
michaelt42 Those who have eyes but do not see are, perhaps, inoculate? Although, after writing this comment, I can see confusion with another meaning of inoculate, all because of the various different meanings of that innocent yet intoxicating prefix, in-. Delightfully, the Italian for coronation is incoronazione. Mar 4, 2012
biocon Oculate is also a verb meaning to set eyes upon; to see, behold (OED). Mar 4, 2012
duckbill "oculate paradise" Mar 7, 2011
fbharjo see ya May 12, 2008