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exestuate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɛɡˈzɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɛɡˈzɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exaestuātus, passive participle of exaestuō (“to boil up”). See estuate.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
   • Till this they were not much enraged, but now no flames could exestuate more than their fury and ravings ; 1808 [1610], “The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk”, in William Oldys, John Malham, editors, The Harleian Miscellany, volume 5, London: Robert Dutton, →OCLC:
   • In excess, they [wine and alcohol] increase, excite, provoke, exaggerate, exestuate, and demonize the passions ; while blasted prospects, ruined hopes, destroyed health, poverty, pain, sorrow, woe, wretchedness, and crime, generally follow their intemperate use 1845, Edward Binns, The Anatomy of Sleep, London: John Churchill, →OL, pages 417–418:

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