digitate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈdɪdʒɪtət/
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/ˈdɪdʒɪtət/ · /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/

Definition of digitate

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
  2. (not-comparable)Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

verb

  1. (obsolete)To point out as with one's finger, indicate.
    “The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air[…]doth digitate a reason.”
  2. To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
    “But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.”

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Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).

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