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Definition of Stagnates
1. stagnate [v] - See also: stagnate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagnates
Literary usage of Stagnates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"... and are met with nut only in the whole course of the urinary passages, but in
fistulous openings wherever the urine stagnates naturally or accidentally. ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"... a mercantile house «fops, or stop» payment ; an affair rest» undecided, or
rests in the hands of a person ; trade stagnates. Whither can we run, ..."
3. Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the State of by Scotland Royal Lunacy Commission, Royal Lunacy Commission, Scotland (1857)
"And, secondly, in those counties where thought most stagnates, a large proportion
of the cases of mental disease is due to congenital causes. ..."
4. Report ...: With an Appendix by Great Britain (1857)
"And, secondly, in those counties where thought most stagnates, a large proportion
of the cases of mental disease is due to congenital causes. ..."
5. The Principles of Grammar: Being a Compendions Treatise on the Languages by Solomon Barrett (1860)
"stagnates, dependent predicate. AT THE BOTTOM, complement of stagnates. "
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And bis cohorts were gleaming ..."
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