To wear or equip with a cothurn; to give tragic or elevated dignity to something.
From 'cothurn' + '-ate' (verb-forming suffix), following Latin patterns for making verbs from nouns.
This rare verb captures an ancient concept: actors didn't just wear boots, they *transformed* themselves into heroes—the cothurn was an action, not just an object.
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