单词 | restagnant |
释义 | † restagnantadj. Obsolete. 1. Stagnant, stagnating. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > [adjective] stillOE standingOE settled1600 commorant1610 restagnant1651 stagnant1669 stagnated1703 stagnate1706 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 67 The bloud is restagnant there, I warrant you, and hath no pulse. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 20 There are bred in most restagnant Waters..an innumerable company of little whitish Animals. 1732 T. Short Proposals for printing Hist. Mineral Waters ii. 197/2 Draining the restagnant Water, and improving it. 2. Running over; overflowing. ΚΠ 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana i. v. 50 When the quantity, and so the Gravity of the Quicksilver contained in the Tube is so augmented, as to exceed the Resistence of the aer; then is the aer compelled or driven back, by the restagnant Quicksilver rising upwards. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall i. 33 The Air which bears against the restagnant Quick-silver. 1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. Pref. sig. A6v The restagnant Mercury, and the Mercury in the Tube. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1651 |
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