digitate

1. not comparableHaving digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
2. not comparableanatomyHaving parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

present singular third person digitates · participle present digitating · participle past digitated · past digitated

1. obsoleteTo point out as with one's finger, indicate.

   The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air[…]doth digitate a reason.

   1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa

2. anatomyTo spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

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   But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.

   1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858, page 393