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Indigitate

Indigitate \In*dig"i*tate\, v. i. [Pref. in- in + L. digitus finger.] To communicate ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [Obs.]

Indigitate

Indigitate \In*dig"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indigitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indigitating.] To point out with the finger; to indicate. [Obs.]

The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitates six hundred.
--Sir T. Browne.

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indigitate

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To proclaim, declare. 2 (context obsolete English) To indicate, point to.

Usage examples of "indigitate".

Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times.