Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To indicate with or as if with the finger; point out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To communicate ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers.
- transitive verb obsolete To point out with the finger; to indicate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
proclaim ,declare . - verb obsolete To
indicate ,point to.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From (the stem of) Latin indigitāre ("call upon (a deity), proclaim"), of uncertain origin; later associated with digitus ("finger").
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Examples
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Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.
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Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.
Middlemarch 1871
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Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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Godhead bodily, "and who was intrusted himself with all divine power, he did no more but indigitate or declare which was the person, and give us a command in general to hear him.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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