▪ I. † ˈerogate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. ērogāt-us, pa. pple. of ērogā-re: see next.]
Equivalent to the later erogated. Distributed.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 23 That some of our superfluitie might be erogate to them. |
▪ II. † ˈerogate, v. Obs.
[f. L. ērogāt- ppl. stem of ērogā-re to pay out, f. ē out + rogāre to ask, the orig. sense being to pay out public money after asking the consent of the Roman people.]
trans. To pay out, expend; to distribute. Also absol.
| 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. viii, Aristotle defineth a liberal man to be he whiche doth erogate accordinge to the rate of his substance. 1550 Veron Godly Sayings (1846) 72 They thought that he should erogate and part his body emonge them. 1692 Bp. of Ely Answ. Touchstone 119 No Man can Supererogate till he have first erogated. 1828 in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |