estuate

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English

Etymology

From Latin aestuare (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”). See ether.

Verb

estuate (third-person singular simple present estuates, present participle estuating, simple past and past participle estuated)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To swell up or rage; to be agitated
    • 1620, Tobias Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam:
      it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
    • 1614, Francis Bacon, speech Undertakers
      these vapours were not gone up to the head, howsoever they might glow and estuate in the body
    • a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Expositions of the Ten Commandments:
      And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?

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