5 pa. pple. exuberate. [f. L. exūberāt- ppl. stem of exūberāre: see EXUBERANT.]
1. intr. To be exuberant; to abound, overflow.
1623. Cockeram, Exuberate, to abound.
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love (1660), 59. That vast confluence and immensity that exuberates in God.
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 420. Trees are thrown by Timber-men into water, least their native moisture should exuberate into rottennesse and worms.
a. 1672. Wood, Life (1848), 36. Such tow’ring ebullitions do not exuberate in my Aganippe.
1838–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., IV. vii. IV. § 51. 328. Scarron was endowed with vast gaiety, which generally exuberated in buffoon jests.
1851. Thackeray, Eng. Hum. (1853), 159. One whose … breast exuberated with human kindness.
b. To exuberate into: to pass by exuberance of growth, develop into. To exuberate in: to indulge in with exuberant feeling.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. Dissert. Drama, 2. Two of its [sc. Ch. of England’s] considerable Members exuberating into that of Comprehenders.
1781. Johnson, 20 April, in Boswell. He might have exuberated into an atheist.
1887. Miss Betham-Edwards, Next of Kin Wanted, I. v. 63. She exuberated in the delicious, the rejuvenating sense of romance.
† 2. trans. In Alchemy: ? To render fruitful (mercury, the alkahest). [Cf. class. L. exūberāre to make fruitful.]
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., Pref. in Ashm. (1652), 126. Our Menstrue by labour exuberate.
1654. Ashmole, Chym. Collect., 77. That Earth so mingled with Menstruous Matter, is called Argent vive, Exuberated, which gather speedily, and while it is new.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., xii. 196. Those that know this will dismiss common Mercury from creating the Stone, or exuberating its humidity.
