exestuate

• exæstuate

Borrowed from Latin exaestuātus, passive participle of exaestuō (“to boil up”). See estuate.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/
• Hyphenation: ex‧es‧tu‧ate

exestuate (third-person singular simple present exestuates, present participle exestuating, simple past and past participle exestuated)

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
   • 1808 [1610], “The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk”, in William Oldys, John Malham, editors, The Harleian Miscellany, volume 5, London: Robert Dutton, →OCLC:

     Till this they were not much enraged, but now no flames could exestuate more than their fury and ravings ;

   • 1845, Edward Binns, The Anatomy of Sleep, London: John Churchill, →OL, pages 417–418:

     In excess, they [wine and alcohol] increase, excite, provoke, exaggerate, exestuate, and demonize the passions ; while blasted prospects, ruined hopes, destroyed health, poverty, pain, sorrow, woe, wretchedness, and crime, generally follow their intemperate use

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:exestuate.

• exestuation

• Lyons, Daniel (1902), “EXESTUATE”, in The American Dictionary of the English Language: Based on the Conclusions of the Most Eminent Philologists, New York: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son, →OCLC, →OL: “egz-esʹtū-āt, v.i. to boil : to be agitated.”
• “exestuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Exestuate”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “IMBOYIL”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton;  […], →OCLC.