Ruinate vs Quinate - What's the difference?

ruinate | quinate |

As a verb ruinate

is to reduce to ruins; to destroy.

As an adjective quinate is

(botany|of a compound leaf) featuring five growing from a single point; (l).

As a noun quinate is

(chemistry) an (l) or a (l) of (l).

ruinate

English

Verb

(ruinat)

To reduce to ruins; to destroy.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:

Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate , / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].

*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:

as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.

To fall; to tumble.

Anagrams

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quinate

English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1760; from the post-Classical (etyl) .

Adjective

(-)

(botany, of a compound leaf) Featuring five growing from a single point; (l).

* 1760 , James Lee, An Introduction to Botany, Containing an Explanation of the Theory of That Science, and an Interpretation of Its Technical Terms, Extracted from the Works of Linnæus , book 3, chapter 6, page 183

They are termed Binate, Ternate, or Quinate , growing two, three, or five together, according to the number of Folioles, of which the digitate Leaf consists.

References

* “ quinate, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989 * “ quinate, adj.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2007

Etymology 2

First attested in 1810; either , in either case perhaps after the (etyl) quinquinate; compare the (etyl) kinate, quinate.

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

(chemistry) An (l) or a (l) of (l).

* 1810 , Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry (4th ed.), volume 3, page 106

Kinates'. Hitherto only one species of this genus of salts has been examined, the ' kinate of lime, which exists in a species of Peruvian bark.

References

* “ quinate, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989 * “ quinate, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2007 ----