Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "osculate" [os•cu•late]

  • To kiss. (verb-transitive)
  • Mathematics To have three or more points coincident with. (verb-transitive)
  • To come together; contact. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "osculate" in a sentence
  • "These people can osculate my posterior … “Not on zee left side, not on zee right side, but right in zee middle.”"
  • "Those who are in a hurry to deprive me of that choice can osculate my posterior."
  • "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."