masculate

First attested in 1623; either from Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix) or a back-formation from emasculate.

masculate (third-person singular simple present masculates, present participle masculating, simple past and past participle masculated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
   • 1878, Meta Orred, Berthold, and Other Poems:

     Great spiders watched his toil with globose eyes,
     And pined with empty masculated jaws

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

• maculates

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mas.kʊˈɫaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mas.kuˈlaː.te]

masculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of masculātus