Definition of "eventilate"

eventilate

verb
third-person singular simple present eventilates, present participle eventilating, simple past and past participle eventilated
1. (obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
  Quotations
  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.
  c. 1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder
2. (obsolete) To discuss; to ventilate.
  Quotations
  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: […]
  1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], “Of the Court of Admiralty”, in Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], page 377