inturbidate

English

Etymology

in- +‎ turbid +‎ -ate

Verb

inturbidate (third-person singular simple present inturbidates, present participle inturbidating, simple past and past participle inturbidated)

1. (transitive, rare, archaic) To cause to be turbid or cloudy; to darken; to confuse.
   • c. 1815-1833?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Donne

     The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology.

References

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