EDUCATE Copy link • EDUCATEeducare (☞ educere in this sense is mostly prae-classical, though occasionally used by Cic.; e.g., quem procrearit et eduxerit, Or., 2, 28, 124; also Liv., Verg., , Tac., etc.): alere (to furnish everything necessary for support; e.g., of a philanthropist, who adopts and educates a child): tollere, suscipere (to take up a child after its birth as a sign that the person so doing recognizes it as his own, and will educate it; Vid: Ruhnken, Ter. Andr., 1, 3, 14; Cic., Ecl., p. 345). To be educated from one’s infancy in anybody’s house, a parvo or a prima infantia in alicujus domo educi. To adopt and educate a child, adoptare et educere; educere pro filio or filia. To teach, erudire: excolere (☞ not efformare). To be well educated, bene doctum et educatum esse; institutum esse liberaliter educatione doctrinaque puerili.