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Definition of Nidifying
1. nidify [v] - See also: nidify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nidifying
Literary usage of Nidifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"... it is not necessary to suppose that each separate species had its nidifying
instinct specially modified ; but only that the early progenitors of each ..."
2. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... it is not necessary to suppose that each separate species had its nidifying
instinct specially modified; but only that the early progenitors of each ..."
3. The Rev. J.W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life by Jermain Wesley Loguen, Elymas Payson Rogers (1859)
""You have no right to take me, when I have a pass," said Jarm, hanging back, and
nidifying the force of the draft on him. "Come along, you d—d rascal, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Correlation has probably played an important part in nidifying domestic races ,
for in selecting a given character ..."
5. The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and by Jared Sparks (1832)
"... nidifying him that orders had been given to the commanders of the King's ships
in America, that, in case any more troops were raised, or fortifications ..."
6. The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber by Francis Lieber (1881)
"... with language, economy, and exchange, institutions and architecture, which is
to man almost like the nidifying instinct to the bird. ..."
7. The Surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs by Edward Lawrence Keyes, William Holme Van Buren (1904)
"Some them are pathogenic, and capable in co-operation with the gono- "«x-rus of
intensifying the mischief occasioned by the latter and of * »nidifying the ..."
8. The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber by Francis Lieber (1880)
"... which is to man almost like the nidifying instinct to the bird. Humboldt's
tendency in this respect seems to me in its sphere not wholly dissimilar to ..."
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