Definition of Lentor

1. n. Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.

Definition of Lentor

1. Noun. slowness, sluggishness ¹

2. Noun. "...she walked through dilating space with the '''lentor''' of one walking under water..." — Nabokov's Lolita, 1955 ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete physics) viscosity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lentor

1. sluggishness [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentor

lentinans
lentisk
lentisks
lentissimo
lentitude
lentivector
lentiviral
lentivirally
lentivirus
lentivirus infections
lentiviruses
lento
lentogenic
lentoid
lentoids
lentor (current term)
lentors
lentos
lentour
lentous
lentula
lenvoy
lenvoys
leo
leod
leogangite
leonardite
leonced
leoncita
leone

Literary usage of Lentor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"That there is a lentor, thickening, or viscidity of the blood. 2. ... The doctrine of lentor of the blood prevailed for the greater part of a century, ..."

2. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1829)
"This constitutes the error loci of the mathematical physiologists, and by the lentor and error loci were the phenomena of local inflammation explained by ..."

3. The Institutions of the Practice of Medicine: Delivered in a Course of by Giambattista Borsieri de Kanilfeld (1800)
"But admitting, like- wife, a periodical return of lentor of the blood, ... as depending wholly upon lentor of the blood, and by no means yield to the bark, ..."

4. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"3, The supposition of a preternatural lentor or viscidity of the blood, ... 5, I presume that no such general lentor, as Boerhaave and his disciples have ..."

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