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Webster 1913 Edition


Indigitate

In-dig′i-tate

,
Verb.
I.
[Pref.
in-
in + L.
digitus
finger.]
To communicate ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers.
[Obs.]

In-dig′i-tate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Indigitated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Indigitating
.]
To point out with the finger; to indicate.
[Obs.]
The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand
indigitates
six hundred.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Indigitate

INDIG'ITATE

,
Verb.
T.
To point out with the finger.

Definition 2024


indigitate

indigitate

English

Verb

indigitate (third-person singular simple present indigitates, present participle indigitating, simple past and past participle indigitated)

  1. (obsolete) To proclaim, declare.
  2. (obsolete) To indicate, point to.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
      Horace therefore, Juvenal, and Persius were no Prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.