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▪ I. vermiculate, a.|vəˈmɪkjʊlət|
[ad. L. vermiculāt-us, pa. pple. of vermiculārī: see next.
Several other senses given in various Dicts. are merely inferences from senses of the ppl. adj.]
Vermiculated; vermicular; sinuous. Chiefly fig.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §5 It is the propertie of good and sound knowledge to putrifie and dissolue into a number of subtile, idle, vnholesome, and (as I may tearme them) vermiculate questions. 1658Phillips, Vermiculate, worm-eaten. a1864R. Choate (Webster), Vermiculate logic. 1872G. Macdonald Wilf. Cumb. III. xvi. 214 My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., Vermiculate color-markings.
b. spec. in Ent. (See quot.)
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 271 Vermiculate,..having tortuous excavations as if eaten by worms.
▪ II. † verˈmiculate, v. Obs.
[f. L. vermiculāt-, ppl. stem of vermiculārī (Pliny), f. vermiculus, dim. of vermis worm.
Other senses which appear in various Dicts. are merely assumed from the ppl. adj.]
1. intr. To become worm-eaten. rare—1.
c1631Elegy on Donne D.'s Poems (1654) B b iv b, Speake, Doth his body there vermiculate, Crumble to dust, and feele the lawes of Fate?
2. To beat with peristaltic motion. rare—1.
1706Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 183 Her pulse indeed vermiculates, Her Breath is short & little. |