innodate
English
Etymology
First attested in 1630; adapted from Medieval Latin vinculis anathematis innodare (“to bind (someone) with/in the bounds of anathema”), borrowed from Latin innōdātus, perfect passive participle of innōdō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + nodus (“knot”).
Verb
innodate (third-person singular simple present innodates, present participle innodating, simple past and past participle innodated)
- (obsolete, religion) (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict. [1630–1655]
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- we do innodate with the like sentence of anathema
References
- “innodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.