v. Obs. [irreg. f. L. exacu-ĕre (f. ex- intensive + acuĕre to sharpen) + -ATE3.]

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  1.  trans. To make keen or sharp; to sharpen, stimulate, excite.

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1632.  B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, III. iii. (1640), 35. And sense of such an Injury receiv’d, Should so exacuate, and whet your choller.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 680/2. Some Cephalicks … exacuate and strengthen the Inhabitants thereof [the Brain], the animal Spirits.

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1721–1800.  in Bailey.

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  2.  To make acrid or pungent.

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1674.  Phil. Trans., IX. 104. The Nitro-aerial Spirit … doth sooner or later exacuate and make fluid the Salino-metallic parts thereof.

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  Hence † Exacuated ppl. a., † Exacuation.

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1627–77.  Feltham, Resolves, II. xxxiii. 227. The exacuated Tortures of Antiochus.

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1623.  Cockeram, Exacuation, a whetting.

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1692–1732.  Coles, Exacuation.

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