eventilateEtymologyFrom Latin ēventilātus, past participle of ēventilō (“to fan”). See ventilate.eventilate means to winnow out; to fan. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.verbTo winnow out; to fan.“I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles.”To discuss; to ventilate.“I[f] regard be had to the Univerſity of humane Reaſon, it is no vvhere ſo narrovvly diſcuſſed and eventilated, and the judgement rectified by clear notions: […]”