monstrate
To show.
Verb
- To show.
- The Portrat right, the Type, the Figure true, / And very viue Anatomie of wit: / To monſtrate theſe, the Miſſes we commit. - 1609, Alexander Gardyne, “The Contents and Summe of the Authors his Christian Knight...
- [Y]et he ought to punish all idolatrous formes of worship, because the light of nature is sufficient to monstrate the absurdnesse and impiety thereof; […] - 1647, Michael Hudson, “Of the due limitation of the Kings...
- To MONSTRATE, [montrer, F[rench] monſtratum, L[atin]] to ſhew. - [1721, N[athan] Bailey, “To MONSTRATE”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2:
Origin
First attested in 1609; borrowed from Latin mōnstrātus, perfect passive participle of mōnstrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).