æstuate

See also: aestuate

English

Verb

æstuate (third-person singular simple present æstuates, present participle æstuating, simple past and past participle æstuated)

  1. Obsolete spelling of estuate.
    • 1825, Joseph Beaumont quoted in The Retrospective Review, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; volume XI, part II, page 306:
      When æstuating in her mighty toil
      The sea has wrought up to her highest shore,
      Her weary floods thou teachest to recoil
      Back to that rest wherein they swum before.
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