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单词 indigitate
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indigitatev.

/ɪnˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/
Etymology: < participial stem of Latin indigitāre, -etāre to call upon, invoke (a deity), to utter, proclaim, declare; of obscure origin, erroneously associated in 16th cent. Latin-English Dictionaries with digitus finger, and explained as ‘to point out as with the finger’; hence the English use in sense 2. Sense 3 is taken directly < digitus.
1. transitive.
a. To call, to indicate by an appellation or name. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > call or give as name to
nemneOE
clepec1000
hightOE
sayOE
nameOE
yclepec1175
callc1300
nevena1400
deemc1400
christena1470
nominate1545
term1545
titulea1550
behight1579
benamea1586
inquire1590
nuncupate1609
indigitate1623
font1652
vocitate1653
express1659
appellate1768
nomenclature1824
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Indigitate, to call; to shew with pointing the finger.
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (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.
1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 191 Idolatry is indigitated here by ϕαρμακεια, Sorcery or Witchcraft, as that whereby it is introduced.
b. To proclaim, declare. Obsolete.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > announce or proclaim [verb (transitive)]
kithec725
i-bedea800
abedeeOE
bid971
deemOE
bodea1000
tellOE
clepec1275
to tell outa1382
denouncec1384
publishc1384
descryc1390
pronouncec1390
proclaima1393
sound1412
proclaim?a1425
renouncea1425
announcec1429
preconize?1440
announce1483
reclaim?1503
call1523
to speak forth1526
annunciate1533
protest1533
to breathe out1535
denouncec1540
enact1611
deblazon1621
deblaze1640
advise1647
apostolize1652
indigitatea1670
enounce1807
voice1850
norate1851
enunciate1864
post1961
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 600 The Scriptures did indigitate he would rise again the third day.
2. To point out with or as with the finger; to show, indicate, point to. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [verb (transitive)] > express with fingers > point to
showa1225
fingera1425
point1477
indigit1603
indigitate1623
digit1628
digitate1658
digitize1736
indicate1808
1623 [see sense 1a].
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vi. 21 Juvenall and Perseus were no prophets, although their lines did seeme to indigitate and point at our times. View more context for this quotation
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 620 To indigitate and point out, as with the finger, John Baptist the first Prophet of the New Testament.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Indigitate, to shew, or point at, as it were, with the Finger.
1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 5 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Under the Analogy of Dialectica or Logick, he indigitates the Anabaptists, Rosacrusians, Capucins, Nominalists, and such like gross and mean Elementary Professors.
3. intransitive. To interlock like the fingers of the two hands; to penetrate each other in this way.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (intransitive)] > interlock or interdigitate
interlock1632
lock1643
indigitate1835
interdigitate1849
mesh1882
pectinate1884
intermesh1909
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 7/2 These bundles [of fleshy fibres] indigitate with those of the diaphragm.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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