Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin aestuatio.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word estuation.

Examples

  • (I personally believe ........ smart thinking the broken jaw story was to cover the fact that he had estuation tube surgery, or plastic surgery in Jacksonville, Florida)

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • For as those which are sick, and find no remedy, do tumble up and down and change place, as if by a remove local they could obtain a remove internal, so is it with men in ambition, when failing of the mean to exalt their nature, they are in a perpetual estuation to exalt their place.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • For as those which are sick, and find no remedy, do tumble up and down and change place, as if by a remove local they could obtain a remove internal, so is it with men in ambition, when failing of the mean to exalt their nature, they are in a perpetual estuation to exalt their place.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

  • And receiuing into his wounded and familiar estuation, in some interposition of time, immediatly his accustomed heat and feruor increased, piercing the inward parts with her virgineall aspects, exceedingly beautified with a comely grace and vnexcogitable elegancie; Because, that into this sweete introduction into my minde, of these first amorous flames, (lyke the

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.