Obs.; also 6 acuat, 7 accuate. [f. prec., or on analogy of vbs. so formed.] To make sharp or pungent, to sharpen. lit. and fig.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xxii. (1870), 286. Grene gynger eaten in the moreninge, fastynge, doth acuat and quycken the remembraunce.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 219. Wine acuates the ingenuity and rouses the spirits.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., I. 363. Comforts the Memory, accuates the Senses.
1750. Phil. Trans., XLVI. 443. To be well rubb’d once in three Hours with a Mixture acuated with Spir. Sal. marin.
