单词 | evestigate |
释义 | † evestigatev. Obsolete. transitive. To seek out, search after, trace. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Evestigate, to seek, to follow, to hunt after. 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies xiii. 323 Many other articles and modes of worship, and opinion, which from certain resemblances might be evestigated from the same spring-head. 1768 J. Cleland Specimen Etimol. Vocab. Antient Celtic 69 The word..is..more justly, more sensibly, to be evestigated from the antient language. Derivatives evestigated adj. ΚΠ 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Evestigated, searched out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1656 |
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