Vestigate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To investigate. nonstandard, obsolete

    "This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression."

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"This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression."

Etymology

From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige.

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