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Definition of Nictitated
1. nictitate [v] - See also: nictitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nictitated
Literary usage of Nictitated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1781)
"... he had a book of prayers from which he ever removed hi« eyes, and the motion
of his lips denoted that he nictitated every word ; he allo attended at ..."
2. A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery: With Some by Edmund Robert Daniell (1845)
"Draper, 1 R. & M. 191, in which a hill was nictitated by a solicitor for payment
of cost« due to him from a client, and it appeared upon the answer, ..."
3. The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: Newspaper Index and Annals by James Suter (1903)
"_ dates finn 1788, in which year it was nictitated. A printed notice which once
came into oar hands contains the originai constitution and regulation*. ..."
4. The Municipal Manual for Upper Canada by J. Balfour (1855)
"... or By-laws to be passed for that purpose by the Municipal Corporation by this
Act nictitated for such former Municipal Corporation; Provided always, ..."
5. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"It was nictitated that a rod of ordinary brickwork would require 4,3'J bricks,
which, at 32s. per thousand, would cost £7. On tin other hand, ..."
6. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1860)
"... and clapping him on too • -J Ь »e thought at Dril tight little nictitated fur
hil »o- ' ' A rough ..."
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