inactuate

English

Verb

inactuate (third-person singular simple present inactuates, present participle inactuating, simple past and past participle inactuated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put into action; to activate.
   • 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises:

     For the plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body.

Derived terms

• inactuation

References

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