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lexicate 

v. to invent new words

n. lexicater- one who lexicates.
Hope: What are you up to Missy?

Missy: Tonight, I'm gonna contemplate and lexicate.

Hope: Cool. Did you think of any new ones yet?

Missy: Yeah, 'pressert'... dessert before dinner!

Hope: Nice!
lexicate by lexicate March 8, 2010
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Lexinator 

Well lexinator means you are an excellent talker and a good guy.
If you are called a Lexinator you are defined as a living legend!
the name Lexinator is usually only named at someone who earned that name by doing something funny or going viral with something.
Hey Lex you are really a Lexinator!
Did you see that kid in that video he was really a Lexinator!
If you do that you could then be called a Lexinator

Lexivate 

To use the law to hinder innovation. Also, informally, to innovate through legal proceeding rather than through creative thinking.

From Latin “lex,” meaning law + French “novre,” to make new (see innovate word roots).

Loosely synonymous with "lixiviate"; to extract one substance from another.
HBO is trying to lexivate a new way to distribute their broadcasts. They are getting all over Sling Box because it is somewhat successful.
Lexivate by Jaymes E W May 10, 2006

Lexivate 

To use the law to hinder innovation. Also, informally, to innovate through legal proceeding rather than through creative thinking.

From Latin “lex,” meaning law + French “novre,” to make new (see innovate word roots).

Loosely synonymous with "lixiviate"; to extract one substance from another.
HBO is trying to lexivate a new way to distribute their broadcasts. They are getting all over Sling Box because it is somewhat successful.
Lexivate by Jaymes WIlliams May 8, 2006
Lexiation (noun):
The process by which a pre-verbal thought, intuition, or internal understanding is forced into language, causing the thought to change rather than simply be expressed.

Lexiation names the moment when knowing becomes saying — and does not remain the same.

Before lexiation, a thought may exist without words. It can be felt rather than stated, meaningful without being explicit, and coherent without being linear. Such thoughts may feel precise to the thinker even when they are difficult to articulate.

Lexiation occurs when this internal state is converted into language: speech, writing, or symbols meant to communicate meaning. This conversion is not neutral. Language imposes structure, sequence, categories, and expectations of clarity. As a result, what is expressed is not identical to what was originally apprehended.

Something is gained through lexiation: communicability and shareability. Something is also lost: nuance, immediacy, and aspects of meaning that do not survive linguistic compression. This is why clarity can sometimes feel like loss.

Once lex iated, a thought becomes separable from its originator and open to reinterpretation.

Example: “I understood it until I tried to explain it — the lexiation changed what I meant.
Cr: Psm, Lexi.
• “I understood it until I tried to explain it — the lexiation changed what I meant.”
Lexiation by Psm, Lexior. December 29, 2025
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square grouper

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