English Explanatory Dictionary

increpate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To chide; to rebuke; to tell off.

Word forms

increpate increpates increpating increpated

Etymology

First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin increpātus, secondary perfect passive participle of increpō (“to upbraid”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, against”) + crepō (“to talk noisily”).

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