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▪ I. verˈtiginate, a. rare—0. [Cf. next.] ‘Turned round, giddy’ (Webster, 1864). ▪ II. vertiginate, v. rare.|vəˈtɪdʒɪneɪt| [f. L. vertīgin-, vertīgo vertigo.] intr. To turn round, spin, or rush dizzily.
[1767A. Campbell Lexiph. (ed. 2) 23 My steed..with an incredible acceleration of velocity, vertiginated along the arable. Ibid. 52 Brine, that once vertiginated in the pacifick ocean.] a1814Last Act i. iii. in New Brit. Theatre II. 372, I, your great Chiron, was your instructor; and thitherward my glory vertiginates. a1834Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 212 Surely never did argument vertiginate more! |