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▪ I. † eˈxuberate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. exūberāt-us, pa. pple. of exūberāre: see exuberant.]
Overflowing, superabundant.
1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 17 The exuberate singularity in Merchants of all nations.
▪ II. exuberate, v.|ɛgˈzjuːbəreɪt|
5 pa. pple. exuberate.
[f. L. exūberāt- ppl. stem of exūberāre: see exuberant.]
1. intr. To be exuberant; to abound, overflow.
1623Cockeram, Exuberate, to abound. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love (1660) 59 That vast confluence and immensity that exuberates in God. 1656[J. Serjeant] tr. T. White's Peripatet. Instit. 420 Trees are thrown by Timber-men into water, least their native moisture should exuberate into rottennesse. a1672Wood Life (1848) 36 Such tow'ring ebullitions do not exuberate in my Aganippe. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. vii. iv. §51. 328 Scarron was endowed with vast gaiety, which generally exuberated in buffoon jests. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. (1853) 159 One whose..breast exuberated with human kindness.
b. to exuberate into: to pass by exuberance of growth, develop into. to exuberate in: to indulge in with exuberant feeling.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Dissert. Drama 2 Two of its [sc. Ch. of England's] considerable Members exuberating into that of Comprehenders. 1781Johnson 20 Apr. in Boswell, He might have exuberated into an atheist. 1887M. B. Edwards Next of Kin I. v, She exuberated in the delicious..sense of romance.
†2. trans. In Alchemy: ? To render fruitful (mercury, the alkahest). [Cf. class. L. exūberāre to make fruitful.]
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Pref. in Ashm. (1652) 126 Our Menstrue by labour exuberate. 1654Ashmole Chym. Collect. 77 That Earth so mingled with Menstruous Matter, is called Argent vive, Exuberated, which gather speedily, and while it is new. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. xii. 196 Those that know this will dismiss common Mercury from creating the Stone, or exuberating its humidity. |