单词 | estuate |
释义 | † estuatev. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To boil, overheat. Also transitive and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > boil [verb (intransitive)] > boil up boilc1612 estuate1620 rise1648 1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 11 A stomacke that estuateth with heat. 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes sig. N3v The blood immediately æstuates and ferments in the lips of the Wound. 1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles iv. 41 Some humours might glow and estuate in the body. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 414 Terrified with this new flaming Phaeton that thus æstuates the temperate, as the sun never heated even the torrid zone. 1847 A. Trollope Macdermots III. vi. 225 The tumultuous sea of damp frieze coats, which aestuates in the outer court. 1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. Feb. 178/1 The incandescence of the elements of his nature—its flints, fluids, metals, minerals, and gems, estuating together, deep, deep, down. 2. intransitive. Of the sea, a river, etc.: to heave; to surge like the tide. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > flow or surge (as the tide) tide1593 estuate1658 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > run high, surge, or heave flash1387 lifta1400 walterc1400 waverc1425 welter1489 jaw1513 roll?1532 surge1566 billow1596 to run high1598 estuate1658 to run steep1894 roil1913 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Aestuate, to burn; to rage like the Sea. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) viii. iii. 106 Æstuating in her mighty toil The Sea has wrought up to her highest shore. 1746 T. Blacklock Poems Several Occasions 79 In horrid native pomp the tempests shine, Ferment, and roar, and estuate in each line. 1850 T. Forester Norway 1848 & 1849 vii. 136 One seems to be lifted above the turbid atmosphere in which the cares and turmoils of the world unceasingly estuate. 1867 Cases Supreme Court U.S. Dec. 1865 III. App. 788 Blackbird Creek..was a mere sluice, up and down which the Delaware estuated. 1879 R. S. Bridges Poems 29 And fish have peered at pan and grate That cooked their fathers, free from fright: While salty tides did estuate Upstairs and downstairs, day and night, Even where I used to sit and write. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1620 |
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