a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. vidtāt-us, pa. pple. of viduāre, f. viduus destitute.]

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  1.  Destitute of something.

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1692.  Plukenett, Lett. to Ray, 17 July (1718), 249. Its Stalks really viduate of Leaves.

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  2.  Widowed.

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c. 1780.  Mock Ode, in Boswell, Johnson (1904), II. 623. Cervisial coctor’s viduate dame.

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