v. Now rare. [f. L. ēructāt- ppl. stem of ēructāre (see prec.).] 1. trans. To belch, vomit forth. Chiefly transf. and fig.

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1638.  Rouse, Heav. Univ., iv. (1702), 34. This affection doth eructate … hidden truths.

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c. 1645.  Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 44. That Aetna in times pass’d, hath eructated such huge gobbets of fire, that the sparks of them have burnt houses in Malta, above fifty miles off.

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1655.  Milton, 2nd Defence, 264. You have begun to eructate the rage of your apostacy.

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1782.  V. Knox, Ess., I. 42. Though he should … daily eructate his invectives against the most respectable men.

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1828.  in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.

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  2.  intr. = ERUCT 1.

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1774.  Joel Collier [J. L. Bicknell], Mus. Trav. (1775), 93. After this, he successively coughed, sneezed, hiccupped, eructated, squeaked, [etc.].

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