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Definition of Acclimates
1. acclimate [v] - See also: acclimate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acclimates
Literary usage of Acclimates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1873)
"It is only another proof of the elasticity of language and its amicable relations
to literature, that it so readily receives and acclimates the exotics of ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"It is only another proof of the elasticity of language and its amicable relations
to literature, that it so readily receives and acclimates the exotics of ..."
3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"May I expect the White- flint"as it acclimates, to become earlier, like most of
the northern fruits introduced into the south, or will the native retain its ..."
4. Mexico by Henry George Ward (1829)
"Those who survive the first attack, particularly if it be a severe one, consider
themselves as acclimates, and think no farther precautions necessary. ..."
5. The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1897)
"... sixteenth century; he acclimates the sentimental tenderness of the English
school, " pilfering a rivulet from the dismal lakes of Cowper and Wordsworth. ..."
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