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indigitate, v.|ɪnˈdɪdʒɪteɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. indigitāre, -etāre to call upon, invoke (a deity), to utter, proclaim, declare; of obscure origin, erroneously associated in 16th c. Latin-Eng. Dictionaries with digitus finger, and explained as ‘to point out as with the finger’; hence the Eng. use in sense 2. Sense 3 is taken directly from digitus.]
†1. trans.
a. To call, to indicate by an appellation or name.
b. To proclaim, declare. Obs.
1623Cockeram, Indigitate, to call; to shew with pointing the finger. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 77 It is not at all harsh to conceive, that they [the Naiades] may be here indigitated by the name of the Upper Waters. a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 600 The Scriptures did indigitate he would rise again the third day. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 191 Idolatry is indigitated here by ϕαρµακεια, Sorcery or Witchcraft, as that whereby it is introduced.
†2. To point out with or as with the finger; to show, indicate, point to. Obs.
1623[see 1]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vi. 21 Juvenall and Perseus were no prophets, although their lines did seeme to indigitate and point at our times. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 620 To indigitate and point out, as with the finger, John Baptist the first Prophet of the New Testament. 1706Phillips, To Indigitate, to shew, or point at, as it were, with the Finger. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. On Pal. Angl. 5 Under the Analogy of Dialectica or Logick, he indigitates the Anabaptists, Rosacrusians, Capucins, Nominalists, and such like gross and mean Elementary Professors.
3. intr. To interlock like the fingers of the two hands; to penetrate each other in this way.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 7/2 These bundles [of fleshy fibres] indigitate with those of the diaphragm. |