Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sharpen; make pungent or sharp, literally or figuratively.
- Sharpened; pointed.
- Having an elongate smooth form pointed at one end; needle-shaped: applied to sponge-spicules.
- An acuate monactinellid sponge-spicule.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
- adj. Sharpened; sharp-pointed.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. ending in a sharp point
Etymologies
- From medieval Latin acuatus, past participle of acuare, variant of acuere "to sharpen", from acus "needle". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For example, a study of the use of a lipid lowering drug by people who had an acuate myocardial infarction found a 42 percent reduction in coronary mortality after 5 years of follow-up.”
“Tincture is a Spirit, a Mist and Fume; as aforesaid, which can penetrate and pass through all Bodies, if you can take it, and acuate it by the Spirit which is in the Salt of _Mars_, and then conjoin the”
“Nothing doeth so moche sharpe and acuate the witte and capacitée of any one, as this kinde of exercise.”
“Speaking at the opening ceremony for the plenary sessions for the Commonwealth People's Forum at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann's, Cropper said leaders would have to be struck by "an acuate consciousness about their own role in changing course to a new vision and to the need for global partnership for its common future.”
Lists
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Sponge Spicule Terminology
A list of the richly esoteric and myriad terms that have been used in the classification and study of fossil and modern sponge spicules.
The morphology of sponge spicule elements paral...monaxon, monaxonial, monaxial, monactine, monactinal, monactinal monaxon, diactinal monaxon, diactine, biradiate, rhabdus, oxea, uniaxial and 186 more...
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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Most Obscure Words
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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