eructatev.
/ɪˈrʌkteɪt/ Now rare.
1. transitive. To belch, vomit forth. Chiefly transferred and figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > eject
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1632 Campian Englished iv. 84 Did he [sc. Martin Luther] not there eructate and belche forth what he could, and yet..went he not away peaceably and without danger?
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxvi. 51 That Aetna in times pass'd, hath eructated such huge gobbets of fire.
1782 V. Knox Ess. I. 42 Though he should..daily eructate his invectives against the most respectable men.
1806 R. Fellowes tr. J. Milton Second Def. in C. Symmons Prose Wks. John Milton VI. 410 You have begun to eructate the rage of your apostacy.
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
2. intransitive. = eruct v. 1.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (intransitive)] > belch
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1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 41 After this, he successively coughed, sneezed, hiccuped, eructated, squeaked, etc.
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