indigitate

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verb

To proclaim, declare.

OriginLatin indigitō →
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Meanings

verbindigitate (third-person singular simple present indigitates, present participle indigitating, simple past and past participle indigitated)

present singular third person indigitates · participle present indigitating · participle past indigitated · past indigitated

  1. obsoleteTo proclaim, declare.
  2. obsoleteTo indicate, point to.

    Horace therefore, Juvenal, and Persius were no Prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6

Origin

  1. Latinindiges
  2. Latinindigitō
  3. Englishindigitate

* From (the stem of) Latin indigitāre (“call upon (a deity), proclaim”). * Later associated with digitus (“finger”), hence the pointing sense.

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APA

indigitate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indigitate

MLA

“indigitate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indigitate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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

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