estuate
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== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
aestuate
æstuate (obsolete)
=== 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”). 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
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
==== Related terms ====
estuation
=== References ===
“estuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.