æstuate

A form of estuate — To swell up or rage; to be agitated.

Meanings

verbæstuate (third-person singular simple present æstuates, present participle æstuating, simple past and past participle æstuated)

present singular third person æstuates · participle present æstuating · participle past æstuated · past æstuated

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of estuate.

    When æstuating in her mighty toil The sea has wrought up to her highest shore, Her weary floods thou teachest to recoil Back to that rest wherein they swum before.

    1825, Joseph Beaumont quoted in The Retrospective Review, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; volume XI, part II, page 306
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