“vestigate”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

vestigate

释义

† ˈvestigate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. L. vestīgāt-, ppl. stem of vestīgāre to track, trace out, investigate.]
intr. and trans. To investigate, in various senses.
a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey, etc. (1825) II. 4 Wherefore Dame Reason did me persuade, and move To be content with my small estate, And in this matter no more to vestigate.1623Cockeram i, Vestigate, to tracke, or trace.1656Blount Glossogr. (following Cooper), Vestigate, to seek out, to seek by the print of the foot, to trace, to search, diligently, to hunt after.1780J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain (1781) 28 To vestigate their mode of propagation.
Hence † ˈvestigating (vbl.) n., a footprint. (Cf. vestigiating.) † vestiˈgation (see quot. and investigation). Obs. rare.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 189 [The Cingalese hold] that Adam was their Created and liued there; they beleeue it rather in regard his vestigatings are yet imprinted in the earth.1658Phillips, Vestigation, a seeking any one by the print of their foot, a searching diligently.

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