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eventilates

eventilates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eventilate.

Meaning of eventilate

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
    • 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.c. 1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder
  2. (obsolete) To discuss; to ventilate.
    • 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: […]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...

Questions about eventilates

What is eventilates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Eventilates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eventilate.

Words near eventilates in the dictionary

  1. eventifies
  2. eventify
  3. eventifying
  4. eventilate
  5. eventilated
  6. eventilates
  7. eventilating
  8. eventilation
  9. eventime
  10. eventimes
  11. eventing

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