estuate

verb

estuate

verb

UK /ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/ · US /ˈɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/

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”).

1

Obsolete To swell up or rage; to be agitated.

  • it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat1620, Tobias Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam:
  • 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
1 more example
  • And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Expositions of the Ten Commandments:
Related terms
aestuous, estuary, estuarial, estuation, exestuate

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