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Webster 1913 Edition

Evestigate

E-ves′ti-gate

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
evestigatus
traced out;
e
out +
vestigatus
, p. p. of
vestigare
. See
Vestigate
.]
To investigate.
[Obs.]
Bailey.

Webster 1828 Edition

Evestigate

EVES'TIGATE

,
Verb.
T.
[Not in use.] [See Investigate.]

Definition 2024

evestigate

evestigate

English

Verb

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

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

Latin

Adjective

ēvestīgāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ēvestīgātus

Etymology

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

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