indigitate

English

Etymology

From (the stem of) Latin indigitāre (“call upon (a deity), proclaim”), of uncertain origin; later associated with digitus (“finger”).

Verb

indigitate (third-person singular simple present indigitates, present participle indigitating, simple past and past participle indigitated)

1. (obsolete) To proclaim, declare.
2. (obsolete) To indicate, point to.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     Horace therefore, Juvenal, and Persius were no Prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.