vertiginate

English

Adjective

vertiginate (comparative more vertiginate, superlative most vertiginate)

1. Turned around; giddy.

Verb

vertiginate (third-person singular simple present vertiginates, present participle vertiginating, simple past and past participle vertiginated)

1. To turn around and around; to whirl.
   • c. 1810-1834?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Sherlock

     Yes; you'll say, that there should be three Persons, each of which is God, and yet but one God, is a contradiction: but what principle of natural reason does it contradict? Surely never did argument vertiginate more!

Related terms

• vertiginous
• vertigo

Anagrams

• integrative, vinaigrette