Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence.
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- noun obsolete A
dwelling orstanding on something; fixedness;persistence .
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Examples
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And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical, or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate; or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and verse invited it; as in fedary, intrinse, intrinsicate, insisture, and various others.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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