evertuate
verbEtymology From French évertuer.
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Obsolete To sap the strength of.
- For besides that the Senate had been now long over-awed, and corrupted many wayes by the acts of the Court; we know the Tributa Comitia are also totally depraved, and evirtuated by being called out of the field into the palace […]1644, Henry Parker, Jus Populi, London: Robert Bostock, page 63:
- Delilahs, that by the Chimistry of look and lap, evirtuate Sampsons love and strength1653, Edward Waterhouse, “A Meditation of Magnanimity under Crosses”, in Two Brief Meditations, London: Thomas Maxey, page 43:
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- 1662, William Penn et al., The Spiritual Bee, Oxford: Edward & John Forrest, Chapter 24, p. 63, glorying and boasting, correcteth, evirtuateth and rendereth ineffectual all motions or endeavours of conscience from within
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Obsolete To strive (to do something, towards something).
- 1642, James Howell, Instructions for Forreine Travell, London: Humphrey Mosley, Section 16, p. , Moreover, one should evertuate himselfe to bring something home, that may accrue to the publique benefit and advantage of his Countrey, and not to draw water to his own Mill only;
- 1647, Roger Corbet, Articles of Impeachment, Agreed upon by the Army under Command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, London: George Whiting, p. 2, The difficultie of kindling on both sides this uniting and evertuating ardour proceeds principally from three causes […]
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- […] the secret we enquire after, and which does most apparently seem to evirtuate towards this end, is some Salt, I suppose is generally agreed: For Salt it is which gives ligature, weight, and constitution to things, and is the most manifest substance in all Artificial Composts.1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, page 100: