c.1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder:
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.
(obsolete) To discuss; to ventilate.
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,[…], →OCLC, page 377: