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ruinate

[ roo-uh-neyt ]

verb (used with object)

ruinated, ruinating.
  1. to ruin.


adjective

  1. ruined.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ruinate1

1530–40; < Medieval Latin °ù³ÜÄ«²ÔÄå³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of °ù³ÜÄ«²ÔÄå°ù±ð. See ruin, -ate 1
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To second that the Pope in counsell sitts, For some rare stratagem they strayne their witts; November's 5th, by powder they decree Great Brytanes state ruinate should bee.

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Where civill warres doe threat to ruinate.’

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Watch fitter hours to think on wrongs than now; Death's frozen hand holds royal Philip's heart; Half of his body lies within a grave; Then do not now by quarrels shake that state, Which is already too much ruinate.

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Like conqu'ring tyrants, you our breasts invade; But soon you find new conquests out, and leave The ravag'd province ruinate and waste.

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In the course of his speech he further stated, that the object of the traitors was “to deprive the king of his crown; to murder the king, the queen, and the prince; to stir up rebellion and sedition in the kingdom; to bring a miserable destruction upon the subjects; to change, alter, and subvert the religion here established; to ruinate the state of the commonwealth, and to bring in strangers to invade it.â€

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