virtuate
English
Verb
virtuate (third-person singular simple present virtuates, present participle virtuating, simple past and past participle virtuated)
- (obsolete) To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
- 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick
- to lead the Purgative to the diseaſed Part , and to virtuate it by that to purge […]
- 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick
References
virtuate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913