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eventuate, v.|ɪˈvɛntjuːeɪt|
[f. L. ēventu-s event n. + -ate; cf. actuate.
First used in U.S., and still regarded as an Americanism, though it has been employed by good writers in England.]
1. intr. To have a (specified) event or issue; to turn out (well or ill); to issue, result in.
1789Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) I. 313, I am sure it is wrong, and cannot eventuate well. 1835M. Scott Cruise Midge xii, The squib had eventuated, as the Yankees say..in a zigzag or cracker. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX xiv. iii. 151 The Schoolmen could not but eventuate in William of Ockham. 1873Smiles Huguenots Fr. ii. ii. (1881) 361 He heard..the discussions which eventuated in Acts of Parliament. 1877A. J. Ross Mem. Bp. Ewing xxxi. 536 The crisis had eventuated favourably.
2. To be the issue; to result, come about.
1834De Quincey Coleridge Wks. (1863) II. 93 In the upshot, this conclusion eventuated (to speak Yankeeishly), that, etc. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. i. 25 If So-and-so were condemned, a schism in the National Church would eventuate. 1884Law Times 14 June 121/1 When there was danger of a war eventuating with America.
3. trans. To bring to the event or issue.
1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 103 Yes, (to eventuate my story) it did me good. |