v. An occasional spelling of ÆSTIVATE, to spend the summer; esp. of animals, to spend the summer in a state of torpor.
1656–81. in Blount, Glossogr.
1854. Thoreau, Walden, 317. As if he had a design to estivate with us.
1883. J. G. Wood, in Sunday Mag., 676/2. The unfortunate reptile was estivating exactly under the spot where the fire had been placed.
