inactuate
English
Verb
inactuate (third-person singular simple present inactuates, present participle inactuating, simple past and past participle inactuated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To set in action; to activate.
- 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises
- For the plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body.
- 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inactuate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)