To publicate

[nq:1]Hi everybody! As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it? What does it mean then? Thanks for your help! Peter[/nq]
It *is* a synonym for "publish" but OED regards it as obsolete -the most recent cite is 200 years ago.
Of course, it lives on in "publication".

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it? What does it mean then?[/nq]
It is the past tense of "publiceat", that is, "eat in public". For example, "Goodness gracious me! I accidentally publicate a cat, and now all the cat people are after me."

[nq:1]As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it? What does it mean then?[/nq]
Not in the dictionary, this is a back-formation
or new coinage or simply an error. If you cannot
guess its meaning you must ask the person
who invented the wrd.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

I thought that it might be an incorrect backformation from "publication" but when I tried to verify that at www.webster.com I was told:

Main Entry: publicate
publicate is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com.
That's why I thought that there actually is a meaning. (And unfortunately I'm not a subscriber of the webster site.)
Furthermore,

[nq:1]Hi everybody! As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it? What does it mean then?[/nq]
To collect taxes while serving pints.

[nq:2]As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it? What does it mean then?[/nq]
[nq:1]Not in the dictionary,[/nq]
Tell it to Oxford. It's in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as well as the OED .
[nq:1]this is a back-formation or new coinage or simply an error.[/nq]
Tell it to Oxford. They date it from the Mid 16th century and traced from the Latin r

[nq:1]Hi everybody! As far as I know "to publicate" is not a synonym of "to publish," is it? What does it mean then? Thanks for your help! Peter[/nq]
It sounds like a Bushism.