overagitate

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ agitate.

Verb

overagitate (third-person singular simple present overagitates, present participle overagitating, simple past and past participle overagitated)

1. To agitate excessively.
   • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, Sermon before the Synod of Dort:

     And what else does this mean, than so much to over-agitate the sincere milk of the word, that it curdles into butter

References

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