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apricate (AP-ri-kayt) - v.i., to bask in the sun. v.t., to expose to sunlight.
I should mark this as (arch.) if not (obs.), but I've seen it enough times, admittedly in humorously learned contexts, to think it's alive -- and certainly I think I should be alive. I should say I've only seen it in the intransitive sense -- I only know the transitive form from researching this post. Adopted around 1690 from Latin apricatus, past participle of apricari, to bask in the sun, from apricus, exposed (to the sun), perhaps related to aperire, to open.
---L.
I should mark this as (arch.) if not (obs.), but I've seen it enough times, admittedly in humorously learned contexts, to think it's alive -- and certainly I think I should be alive. I should say I've only seen it in the intransitive sense -- I only know the transitive form from researching this post. Adopted around 1690 from Latin apricatus, past participle of apricari, to bask in the sun, from apricus, exposed (to the sun), perhaps related to aperire, to open.
---L.
