cicurate means to tame, domesticate. It carries an Arena rating of 1329, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, cicurate ranks #2,423 of 17,163 for Funniest Words, #3,137 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #3,362 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #5,059 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words.
cicurate is pronounced /ˈsɪkjʊɹeɪt/.
Why “cicurate” is a great word
CICURATE — [Verb] To tame or domesticate, especially to render a wild animal mild or harmless. From the Latin cicurare ("to tame"), from cicur ("tame"). Unlike "subdue," which implies control by force, or "break," which denotes an initial, forceful mastery, to cicurate suggests a thorough and gentle cultivation of tractability. It is the patient hand that coaxes a feral kitten with milk, the slow trust that teaches a hawk to accept the hood, the generations of breeding that soften a wolf's gaze into a dog's—a quiet victory over chaos, achieved not by dominion but by partnership.
Etymology
From Latin cicurare (“to tame”), from cicur (“tame”).
verb
- To tame, domesticate.e.g.“even after carnal conversion, poisons may yet retain some portion of their natures; yet are they so refracted, cicurated, and subdued” — 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
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