evestigate

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verb

To investigate.

OriginLatin evestigatus →
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Meanings

verbevestigate (third-person singular simple present evestigates, present participle evestigating, simple past and past participle evestigated)

present singular third person evestigates · participle present evestigating · participle past evestigated · past evestigated

  1. obsoleteTo investigate.

    It is then highly probable, that the doctrine of the Metempsychosis, which so particularly distinguished Pythagoras, was derived from them, with many other articles and modes of worship, and opinion, which from certain resemblances might be evestigated from the same spring-head.

    1757, John H. Grose, A Voyage to the East-Indies

Origin

  1. Latinevestigatus“traced out”
  2. Englishevestigate

From Latin evestigatus (“traced out”), from e (“out”) + vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestigate.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “evestigate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evestigate.

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