estuate
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin aestuāt-, past participial stem of aestuō (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”).[1] See ether.
Verb
estuate (third-person singular simple present estuates, present participle estuating, simple past and past participle estuated)
- (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 […] [about the] 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?
Related terms
References
- “estuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “estuate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.