exacuate

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/ɪɡˈzækjueɪt/

verb

To hone, whet or sharpen.

OriginLatin exacure →
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Meanings

verbexacuate (third-person singular simple present exacuates, present participle exacuating, simple past and past participle exacuated)

present singular third person exacuates · participle present exacuating · participle past exacuated · past exacuated

  1. figurativelyobsoleteTo hone, whet or sharpen.

    He hath done you wrong in a moſt high degree: And ſenſe of ſuch an injury receiv'd Should so exacuate, and whet your choler.

    1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

  1. Latinexacure
  2. Englishexacuate

From Latin exacure, from ex (“out (intensive)”) + acuere (“to make sharp”). See acuate, acute.

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Chicago

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