1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. v. i. 159 Those [heads] which are exactly round, or acuminate, and sharp towards the top, are not thought good.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 369 The Nightingale hath some disadvantage in the tongue; which is not acuminate and pointed as in the rest, but seemeth as it were cut off. View more context for this quotation

a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 210 The other [tiara] upright and acuminate, worn only by kings.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxix. 455 You will know it by the lance-shaped, acuminate leaves.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 401 The tail..consists of twenty very narrow acuminate feathers.

1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) vii. 73 Blade..broadest just above its base; acuminate above.

2003 K. A. K. Moldenhauer & J. H. Gibbons in C. W. Smith & R. H. Dilday Rice ii. i. 106 The ligule shape during the vegetative stage can be acute to acuminate, two-cleft, or truncate.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. v. 198 Rare, acuminate, quick and phantasticall blades of your employment, that have hundred witty Remoras for their guests.

1799 Monthly Mirror July 45 Words, most acuminate, thou faint wouldst deem, The warmest, adiaphorous would seem, Ideas of acroamatic kind, The simple offspring of an idiot mind.

1904 Ann. Surg. June 921 This disease is sufficiently common and so frequently unrecognized..as to actuate more intelligent and acuminate clinical observation upon all elderly men.

1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning ii. xi. 109 He [sc. Pan] had on his head a paire of Hornes, riseing in a sharp, acuminate [L. fastigiatis] to heaven.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ll7^v Where the thicknesse doth begin to be acuminated in a slender toppe.

1675 W. Okeley Eben-Ezer Pref. sig. A3 Come and view one of Gods Handy-works in the same Glass, V. G. The sting of a Bee, and you shall see it perpetually Acuminated till it ends in something, which the Eye must either confess to be a Point, or Nothing.

1784 W. Cowper Let. 18 Sept. (1981) II. 279 Tones so dismal, as to make woe itself insupportable, and to acuminate even despair.

1791 J. de St Remy de Valois Life II. 2 My afflictions were acuminated, by those elevated notions which I had imbibed from a dying parent.

1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 613 They often supply an agreeable variation of imagery, and serve to acuminate attention.

1879 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 689 The work has been revised and acuminated.

1904 Univ. Geol. Surv. Kansas 8 450 The mineral galena occurs crystallized in cubes, often with the faces of the octahedron acuminating its solid angles.

1922 G. S. Hall Senescence viii. 413 Senescents in the post-climacteric acuminate their personality, sometimes to the point of idiosyncrasy and eccentricity.

2009 Technol. Forecasting & Social Change (Nexis) Mar. 396 Indeed, the case as presented here acuminates the empirical findings and illustrates an important change in the organization of Smart Home innovation.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 25 Their hierarchies acuminating still higher and higher in a cone of Prelaty.

1790 R. Walker Inq. Small-pox vii. 143 Though this kind acuminates, yet each pustule has a small fovea or depression at its apex.

1847 D. F. Condie Pract. Treat. on Dis. Children (ed. 2) iv. i. 448 The pustule now acuminates and finally bursts, discharging a purulent matter, of a yellowish colour.

1897 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 36 87 The postorbital is a longitudinal oval, acuminating to a point posteriorly.

1906 St. Louis Courier of Med. 34 377 Instead of acuminating in the usual way, they shrink and shrivel about the sixth or seventh day of the eruption.

2008 Africa News (Nexis) 23 June The evidence in this case was largely common cause and it acuminated to this.