durate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from duration

Verb

durate (third-person singular simple present durates, present participle durating, simple past and past participle durated)

1. (uncommon, chiefly philosophy) To have, or last for, some duration (of time).
   • 1891, Herbert Nichols, The Psychology of Time: Historically and Philosophically Considered, with Extended Experiments:

     But in the same way as we shall say of our simple creature that he perceives his sensation when it exists at all, and that he perceives time when it (the sensation) durates at all, 80 we shall say he perceives a certain definite […]

   • 1903, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, Pulse and Rhythm, page 430:

     "Perception of time duration is always a process and never a state — for us to perceive five seconds, something must durate five seconds, for us to perceive a year some definite sensation would have to durate a year."

   • 1910, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz, Studies in the Marvellous, page 88:

     Fear is often found associated with the uncertainty of doubt and with the durating sense of strangeness that characterize a well-developed state of marvel.

   • 1988 02, Richard E. Schade, Lessing Yearbook XIX, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 117:

     Simply because a sentence of, say, ten words necessitates a time period, e.g. 5 seconds, i.e. it durates. The formal description of English during a given period will result in what English is.

Ido

Verb

durate

1. adverbial present passive participle of durar

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

durate

1. inflection of durare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

durate f pl

1. feminine plural of durato

Anagrams

• dature

Latin

Verb

dūrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dūrō

Spanish

Verb

durate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of durar combined with te