virtuate

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Verb

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virtuate (third-person singular simple present virtuates, present participle virtuating, simple past and past participle virtuated)

  1. (obsolete) To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
    • 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick:
      to lead the Purgative to the diseaſed Part , and to virtuate it by that to purge []

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virtuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.