evestigate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin evestigatus (traced out), from e (out) + vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestigate.

Verb[edit]

evestigate (third-person singular simple present evestigates, present participle evestigating, simple past and past participle evestigated)

  1. (obsolete) To investigate.
    • 1757, John H. Grose, A Voyage to the East-Indies:
      It is then highly probable, that the doctrine of the Metempsychosis, which so particularly distinguished Pythagoras, was derived from them, with many other articles and modes of worship, and opinion, which from certain resemblances might be evestigated from the same spring-head.

Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ēvestīgāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ēvestīgātus