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Vermiculate   Listen
verb
Vermiculate  v. t.  (past & past part. vermiculated; pres. part. vermiculating)  To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.



adjective
Vermiculate  adj.  
1.
Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
2.
Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical. "Vermiculate questions." "Vermiculate logic."






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"Vermiculate" Quotes from Famous Books



... is absolutely, essentially mean—as the pride of being holier than our fellow, except the pride of being holy. Such imagined holiness is foulness. Religion itself in the hearts of the unreal, is a dead thing; what seems life in it, is the vermiculate ...
— Hope of the Gospel • George MacDonald

... their faces, will run you up to a fabulous price at the auction, and you will at last be put into free quarters for life in some shady alcove upon some lofty shelf, with unlimited rations of dust, as you glide into a vermiculate dotage. Why should you be faint-hearted, when the men of the stalls ask such a breath-stretching price for the productions of William Whitehead, Esq., who used to celebrate the birthdays of old George the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

... pl. Associated Words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, taenifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, vermicious, vermicular, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



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