osculate
IPA: ˈɔskjuɫɪt
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To kiss.
- (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
- (intransitive) To make contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
- To form a connecting link between two genera.
adjective
- Relating to kissing.
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Examples of "osculate" in Sentences
- He and all the REST of his kind can osculate my superannuated queer posterior.
- Those who are in a hurry to deprive me of that choice can osculate my posterior.
- These people can osculate my posterior … “Not on zee left side, not on zee right side, but right in zee middle.”
- But watch again and something happens: you see a moment both sweet and wry as a couple shyly osculate in "The Kiss," a quiet dignity beneath the brawny bravado in "Sandow: The Strong Man."
- Even those discussions which, at a first view, might seem to belong rather to natural theology, were deliberately assigned to their place after long experience in teaching, as pertaining to the limits where the two fields osculate if they do not cut, and with a clear pre-eminence given to the ethical side of the truths common to both.
- That there are points on which the moral systems of men and nations osculate, is most true; that there should have been certain approximations on many most important subjects was to be expected from the essential identity of human nature, in all ages and countries; but their deviations in some point or other -- usually in several -- from what we acknowledge to be both right and expedient, is equally undeniable.
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