exacuate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To whet or sharpen.
    • Ben Jonson, The Magnetick Lady.
      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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exacuate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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