v. Obs. [f. L. ēventilāt- ppl. stem of ēventilā-re to fan, f. ē- out + ventilāre to fan: see VENTILATE. Cf. OF. eventiler.]
1. trans. To expose to the wind or air; to fan; to winnow (corn); to aerate (blood).
1623. in Cockeram.
1657. Phys. Dict., Eventilated, fanned, cooled, or clensed by the wind.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 185/1. The Symptoms … were caused by Bloud fermenting too much, and not eventilated enough.
1706. in Phillips; hence in Ash, etc.
2. fig. To lay open to discussion; to discuss; to VENTILATE.
1657. Howell, Londinop., 377. It is nowhere so narrowly discussed and eventilated.
1669. Address to Hopeful Young Gentry England, 136. This is a subject so copiously and methodically elsewhere, and by those whose profession has exercised their notions and parts, eventilated.
b. (see quot.: not in the Law Dicts.)
1706. Phillips (ed. Kerse), Eventilate … in a Law-sense, to estimate, prize, or value an Estate or Inheritance.
