estuate
English
Etymology
From Latin aestuare (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”), akin to Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to burn”). See ether.
Verb
estuate (third-person singular simple present estuates, present participle estuating, simple past and past participle estuated)
- (archaic, intransitive) To swell up or rage; to be agitated
- 1620, Tobias Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam:
- it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
- 1614, Francis Bacon, speech […] [about the] Undertakers
- these vapours were not gone up to the head, howsoever they might glow and estuate in the body
- a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Expositions of the Ten Commandments:
- And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?
Derived terms
References
- “estuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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