In an ovate manner.

Shaped like an egg. / (botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.

(archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.

An Irish bard. / A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.

(Ancient Rome) A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph. / (by extension) A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement. / (by extension) Prolonged enthusiastic applause.

(transitive, intransitive, informal, rare) To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause).

(zoology, obsolete, rare) The act of laying eggs.

plural of ovation

(informal, rare) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ovation

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