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Definition of Gestated
1. gestate [v] - See also: gestate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gestated
Literary usage of Gestated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Taine (1889)
"... through which the vague ideas we carry about with us are gestated, nourished,
perfected, multiplied and strengthened. This truth is patent everywhere, ..."
2. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"In the meanwhile another happy thought slowly gestated in Davis's alleged intellect.
How he came to give birth to two ideas with no more than a week between ..."
3. The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber by Francis Lieber (1881)
"The law of nations, that strong cement of peoples, which was conceived by the
great Grotius, as the science of politics was gestated by one man, Aristotle, ..."
4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"The outward shape of its first specimens was not uniform, for the vehicles (the
egg-like, external shells, in which the future fully physical man gestated) ..."
5. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True by Adin Ballou (1854)
"... the world mal-formed, or non-compos, or sickly, or irrascible, or ill balanced,
by reason of the gall and bitterness amid which it has been gestated. 3. ..."
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