rare. [f. L. vertīgin-, vertīgo VERTIGO.] intr. To turn round, spin, or rush dizzily.
[1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (ed. 2), 23. My steed … with an incredible acceleration of velocity, vertiginated along the arable. Ibid., 52. Brine, that once vertiginated in the pacifick ocean.]
a. 1814. Last Act, I. iii., in New Brit. Theatre, II. 372. I, your great Chiron, was your instructor; and thitherward my glory vertiginates.
a. 1834. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1839), IV. 212. Surely never did argument vertiginate more!
