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单词 evestigate
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evestigatev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ēvestīgāt-, ēvestīgāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin ēvestīgāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of ēvestīgāre to search out < ē- e- prefix2 + vestīgāre vestigate v. Compare earlier investigate v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To seek out, search after, trace.
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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.
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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).
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