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evestigate

evestigate verb: to investigate.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To investigate.
    • 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.1757, John H. Grose, A Voyage to the East-Indies

Forms of evestigate

third-person singular presentevestigates
present participleevestigating
past participleevestigated
pastevestigated

Origin of evestigate

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

Questions about evestigate

What does evestigate mean?
Evestigate means to investigate.
What part of speech is evestigate?
Evestigate is a verb.
What is the past tense of evestigate?
The past tense of evestigate is evestigated.

Words near evestigate in the dictionary

  1. Evesham
  2. eveslogite
  3. Eveson
  4. evestar
  5. EVestG
  6. evestigate
  7. evestigated
  8. evestigates
  9. evestigating
  10. evestra
  11. evestrum

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