virtuate

English

Verb

virtuate (third-person singular simple present virtuates, present participle virtuating, simple past and past participle virtuated)

1. (obsolete) To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
   • 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick:

     to lead the Purgative to the diseaſed Part , and to virtuate it by that to purge […]

References

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