egerminate

From Latin ēgermināt-, perfect passive participial stem of Latin ēgerminō (“to sprout”). See Latin ē- (“out, away”), Latin germinō (“to sprout”), English germinate.

egerminate (third-person singular simple present egerminates, present participle egerminating, simple past and past participle egerminated)

1. (obsolete, rare) To germinate.
   • 1791, Sir John Sinclair, The statistical account of Scotland, volume 19, Edinburgh, page 361:

     There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue.

   • 1839, Charles Robson, “ἐκφύω”, in A Greek lexicon to the New Testament, London: Whittaker and Co., page 137:

     […] ἐκφύῃ, in subjunct. present,—others read ἐκφυῇ, which is the subjunct. of ἐξεφύην, a later form of the aor. 2 for ἐξέφυν (intrans. as also the perf.), to egerminate, shoot out, put forth, i. e. the leaves put forth.

   • 1859, A Noontide Vision, London: Partridge and Co., page 5:

     It was a small building […] ; its worn-out walls were covered with the multifoliate ivy, which extended its egerminating branches from the south end of the church […]

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