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Coaptate vs Cooptate - What's the difference?

coaptate | cooptate |

As verbs the difference between coaptate and cooptate

is that coaptate is to join or attach while cooptate is to choose; to elect.

coaptate

English

Verb

(coaptat)
  • (transitive, chiefly, medicine) To join or attach.
  • * Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases
    • Female patients sometimes tell us that another woman enters her body and coaptates herself to it, especially during the act of coitus.

    cooptate

    English

    Verb

    (cooptat)
  • (obsolete) To choose; to elect.
    • (Cockeram)
    (Webster 1913) ----