estuate en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/ (General-American)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aestuātus, past participial of aestuō (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”).
Meanings
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(intransitive, obsolete) To swell up or rage; to be agitated.
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
it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
1620, Tobias Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam:And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?
a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Expositions of the Ten Commandments:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| estuates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| aestuate | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| estuating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| estuated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| estuated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| æstuate | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |