exacuate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzækjueɪt/

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To 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:

     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.

Related terms

• 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)