eventilate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin eventilatus, past participle of eventilare (to fan). See ventilate.

Verb

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eventilate (third-person singular simple present eventilates, present participle eventilating, simple past and past participle eventilated)

  1. (obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
    • c. 1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder:
      I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles.
  2. (obsolete) To discuss; to ventilate.
    • 1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], “Of the Court of Admiralty”, in Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: [], London: [] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, [], →OCLC, page 377:
      I[f] regard be had to the Univerſity of humane Reaſon, it is no vvhere ſo narrovvly diſcuſſed and eventilated, and the judgement rectified by clear notions: []

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