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Definition of Geminating
1. geminate [v] - See also: geminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geminating
Literary usage of Geminating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Addresses and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1877)
"By geminating the vowel. 2. By a mute e after the vowel (only with the vowel i).
3. By a mute h before or after the vowel, and this last is by far the most ..."
2. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1825)
"Peristome simple, of geminating teeth, closely reflexed when dry. Columella dilated
at the apex. Calyptra even, entire at the base, fugacious. ..."
3. The Pepet Law in Philippine Languages by Carlos Everett Conant (1913)
"It is especially worthy of note that the geminating languages, Ilk., Ibg.
and Bgb., show frequent doubling in this class, that is, of a consonant following ..."
4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1826)
"... and geminating in pairs: in others (and more usually) 8, equidistant, ...
geminating in pairs, each with a longitudinal semi- pellucid line. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Ho states his conclusion thus : "I conceive myself to have proved that the radicle»
of geminating seeds aro made to descend, ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... for a word of any other the numerical values of whose letters gave the same sum.
geminate (jem'inät), v. ; prêt, and pp. geminated, ppr. geminating. ..."
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