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acuate

American

[ak-yoo-it, -eyt] / ˈæk ju ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

sharpened; pointed.

Etymology

Origin of acuate

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin acu ( s ) needle ( cf. acicula, acute) + -ate ¹

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acuate

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 Rainolde, Richard

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