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(1):

As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.

(2):

As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to).

(3):

As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.

(4):

In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for '-Ate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/-/-ate.html. 1828.
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