eventilate

English

Etymology

From Latin eventilatus, past participle of eventilare (“to fan”). See ventilate.

Verb

eventilate (third-person singular simple present eventilates, present participle eventilating, simple past and past participle eventilated)

1. (obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
   • c. 1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder:

     I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles.

2. (obsolete) To discuss; to ventilate.
   • 1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], “Of the Court of Admiralty”, in Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], →OCLC, page 377:

     I[f] regard be had to the Univerſity of humane Reaſon, it is no vvhere ſo narrovvly diſcuſſed and eventilated, and the judgement rectified by clear notions: […]

References

• “eventilate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.