Meanings
verbvirtuate (third-person singular simple present virtuates, present participle virtuating, simple past and past participle virtuated)
present singular third person virtuates · participle present virtuating · participle past virtuated · past virtuated
- obsoleteTo make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
to lead the Purgative to the diseaſed Part , and to virtuate it by that to purge[…]
1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick
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