v. t. [ Pref. ab- + irritate. ] (Med.) To diminish the sensibility to stimulation of. [ 1913 Webster+ AS ]

v. t. [ L. ablactatus, p. p. of ablactare; ab + lactare to suckle, fr. lac milk. ] To wean. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour. ] (Chem.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Combined with acetic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agitated p. pr. & vb. n. Agitating ] [ L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act, Agent. ] 1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. “Winds . . . agitate the air.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move or actuate. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; rampageous, raging, frenzied ; wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn. -- tossing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand. [ Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; stirred. ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. In an agitated manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amputated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amputating. ] [ L. amputatus, p. p. of amputare: amb- + putare to prune, putus clean, akin to E. pure. See Putative. ] 1. To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body). Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'ana` up + ista`nai to make to stand. ] (Physiol.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.. [ L. angulus angle + dens, dentis, tooth. ] (Bot.) Angularly toothed, as certain leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. angustatus, p. p. of angustare to make narrow. ] Narrowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annotated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annotating. ] [ L. annotatus; p. p. of annotare to annotate; ad + notare to mark, nota mark. See Note, n. ] To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apostata, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;. See Apostasy. ] 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the apostate angel. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wretched and apostate state. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. apostatare. ] To apostatize. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We are not of them which apostate from Christ. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. aptatus, p. p. of aptare. See Apt. ] To make fit. [ Obs. ] Bailey [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. archontat. ] An archon's term of office. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argentatus silvered. ] (Bot.) Silvery white. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. arietatus, p. p. of arietare, fr. aries ram. ] To butt, as a ram. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aristatus, fr. arista. See Arista. ] 1. (Bot.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Estate; state. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. attentatum, pl. attentata, fr. attentare to attempt: cf. F. attentat criminal attempt. See Attempt. ] 1. An attempt; an assault. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed. (b) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Wisconsin; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Oregon; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + costate. ] (Bot.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot. & Zool.) Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + digitate. ] Having two fingers or fingerlike projections. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Tennessee; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + peltate. ] Having a shell or covering like a double shield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + punctate. ] Having two punctures, or spots. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + scutate. ] (Bot.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + septate. ] With two partitions or septa. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. The Sate of Kentucky; -- a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses are bred. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence
Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capacitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Capacitating. ] To render capable; to enable; to qualify. [ 1913 Webster ]

By this instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capitatus fr. caput head. ] 1. Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the flowers gathered into a head. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. circum + agitate. ] To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. circum- + nutate. ] To pass through the stages of circumnutation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. circumrotare; circum + rotare to turn round. ] To rotate about. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. [ See Coarctate, a. ] 1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To restrain; to confine. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coarctatus, p. p. of coarctare to press together; co- + arctare to press together, from arctus, p. p. See Arctation. ] (Zool.) Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coarctate pupa (Zool.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera. [ 1913 Webster ]