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English
Etymology
From Latin effodiō, effodicō.
Verb
effodicate (third-person singular simple present effodicates, present participle effodicating, simple past and past participle effodicated)
- (very rare, literary, archaic) To dig up.
1599, Oswald Gäbelkover, The Boock of Physicke, page 54:... occlude it then cloſe together, [...] a cubite vnder grovvnd, agaynſte the ſurrection of the Sunne, in ſome Garden, and there let it remayne the continuance of a moneth thẽ effodicate, or digge vp the ſame & diſtille it.
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