vestigate

English

Etymology

From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige.

Verb

vestigate (third-person singular simple present vestigates, present participle vestigating, simple past and past participle vestigated)

1. (obsolete) To investigate.
   • 1813, George Gleig, The historical works of William Robertson, page 274:

     This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• gestative

Latin

Verb

vestīgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vestīgō