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"Orientate" is a perfectly valid form.
Is not. Oughtn't. The verb is "orient."
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Quote:
The verb is "orient."
Say what you will, but "orient" is a verbed noun; "orientate" has never been anything but a verb.
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Astounding. Did the dictionary writers make "imaginate" a word too? Certainly tarnate will be in the Oxferd Hillbilly Dikshunary. 
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imaginate - obs. to imagine (ca. 1570) [OED]
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