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Etymology

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From Latin exaestuatus, passive participle of exaestuare (to boil up). See estuate.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, rare) To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 exestuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)