overagitate

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

overagitate (third-person singular simple present overagitates, present participle overagitating, simple past and past participle overagitated)

To agitate excessively.
- a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, Sermon before the Synod of Dort:
  And what else does this mean, than so much to over-agitate the sincere milk of the word, that it curdles into butter

References edit

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