acuate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of acuate
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin acu ( s ) needle ( cf. acicula, acute) + -ate 1
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Nothing doeth so moche sharpe and acuate the witte and capacitée of any one, as this kinde of exercise.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
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