effluviate

English

Verb

effluviate (third-person singular simple present effluviates, present participle effluviating, simple past and past participle effluviated)

1. (intransitive) To give forth effluvium.
   • 1685, Robert Boyle, An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion:

     an effluviating power

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “effluviate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)