effodicate

English

Etymology

From Latin effodiō, effodicō.

Verb

effodicate (third-person singular simple present effodicates, present participle effodicating, simple past and past participle effodicated)

1. (very rare, literary, archaic) To dig up.
   • 1599, Oswald Gäbelkover, The Boock of Physicke, page 54:

     ... occlude it then cloſe together, [...] a cubite vnder grovvnd, agaynſte the ſurrection of the Sunne, in ſome Garden, and there let it remayne the continuance of a moneth thẽ effodicate, or digge vp the ſame & diſtille it.

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