indigitate

Definitions

1. 1.To communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [Obs.]
2. 2.To point out with the finger; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [Obs.] called?
• What is to point out with the finger; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne called?