Word Meanings - OVERAGITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.

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• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• EXPEDIENTIAL
  . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• EXPEDIENTLY
  1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly.
• DISCUSSIONAL
  Pertaining to discussion.
• EXPEDIENT
  1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient
• AGITATEDLY
  In an agitated manner.
• DISCUSSER
  One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.
• DISCUSSIVE
  Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter. 2. Doubt-dispelling; decisive. A kind of peremptory and discussive voice. Hopkins.
• DISCUSS
  To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety. Burrill. Syn. -- To Discuss, Examine, Debate. We speak of examining a subject when we ponder it with care, in order
• DISCUSSION
  1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. 2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• INEXPEDIENT
  Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
• INDISCUSSED
  Not discussed. Donne.
• FLAGITATE
  To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. Carcyle.
• EXAGITATE
  1. To stir up; to agitate. Arbuthnot. 2. To satirize; to censure severely. Hooker.
• UNEXPEDIENT
  Inexpedient.
• CIRCUMAGITATE
  To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor.