▪ I. cribrate, a. Nat. Hist.
(ˈkraɪbreɪt)
[f. L. crībrum sieve, after caudate, etc.: see -ate2.]
Perforated like a sieve with small holes.
| 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 430 Thin cribrate parietes. |
▪ II. † ˈcribrate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. crībrāre to sift, f. crībrum sieve.]
trans. To sift; also fig.
| a 1631 Donne Lett. (1651) 308, I have cribrated, and re⁓cribrated, and post-cribrated the Sermon. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 633 Cribrated flower of white Orobs. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. xiv. §1 (1681) 307 It distils in minute drops, as it were cribrated through the thick Air. |