restagnant
English
Etymology
Latin restagnans, present participle
Adjective
restagnant (comparative more restagnant, superlative most restagnant)
- (obsolete) stagnant; motionless
- 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, OCLC 633153238:
- restagnant Quicksilver
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for restagnant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)