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To sharpen; make pungent or sharp, literally or figuratively. Immoderate feeding upon pickled meats, and debauching with strong wines, do inflame and acuate the blood. Harvey, Consumption.
Sharpened; pointed.
Having an elongate smooth form pointed at one end; needle-shaped: applied to sponge-spicules.

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ADVERTISEMENT acuate the AT&T building in central San Jose after the fumes led someone to call emergency services.
Nothing doeth so moche sharpe and acuate the witte and capacitée of any one, as this kinde of exercise. — 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
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 — Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.

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from Latin as if *acuātus, past participle of *acuāre, from Latin acuěre, past participle acutus, sharpen: see acute, adjective
from Latin as if *acuātus, past participle: see the verb.

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