v. Obs. Also 7 exe-. [f. exæstuāt- ppl. stem of exæstuā-re, f. ex- (see EX- pref.1) + æstuā-re to boil up. Cf. ÆSTUATE.]
1. intr. To boil up; to ferment; (of flames) to flare up.
1642. Strangling Gt. Turk, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), V. 192. No flames could exestuate more than their fury and ravings.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Exæstuate, to boil or cast up waves, or as a boiling pot does.
1775. in Ash.
2. trans. To overheat.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 53. That it may not too much exestuate the liver.
¶ (Wrongly explained; see quot.).
1657. Phys. Dict., Exestuate, destroy the heat of any part.
Hence † Exæstuating ppl. a., that boils or surges up.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 219/2. The unloadings or things cast over-board by the exestuating bloud.
