Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Performed by a faculty other than the will, at the command of the will: opposed to elicit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Done by
express direction ; notinvoluntary ;commanded .
Etymologies
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Latin imperatus, past participle of imperare to command.
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Examples
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Such are all the elicit [101] and imperate [102] acts of our understandings and wills; all actions that are voluntary, rational, and peculiarly human.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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For they must know that an habit may continue, when it is no longer able to act; or rather the elicit, internal acts of it may be quick and vigorous, when the external, imperate acts of the same habit utterly cease: and let men but reflect upon their own observation, and consider impartially with themselves, how few in the world they have known made better by age.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
biocon commented on the word imperate
imperate = command, rule or govern (OED).
December 3, 2016