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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.

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.

Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical. "Vermiculate questions." "Vermiculate logic."

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Etymology of 'Vermiculate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vermiculate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Associated Words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, taenifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms;—so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon