exacuate

From Latin exacure, from ex (“out (intensive)”) + acuere (“to make sharp”). See acuate, acute.

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzækjueɪt/

exacuate (third-person singular simple present exacuates, present participle exacuating, simple past and past participle exacuated)

1. (obsolete, figurative) To hone, whet or sharpen.
   • 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     He hath done you wrong in a moſt high degree: And ſenſe of ſuch an injury receiv'd Should so exacuate, and whet your choler.

• exacuation

• “exacuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.