This is also a man – (applause) – who summated the 14,400-foot Mount Rainier, one of the most difficult climbs in the continental United States.
But what is the definition of summate?
Well, here it is:
sum·mate
v. sum·ma·ted, sum·ma·ting, sum·mates
v.tr.
To sum up: summate a legal argument.
v.intr.
To form or constitute a cumulative effect.
This adds:
transitive verb : to add together
As a lawyer, Mrs. Clinton probably used it often, to sum up a case.
But to mean: to reach the summit?
Or did a State Department transcripist misspell it instead of summitted?
But then we have submitted.
English is complicate at times.
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