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Definition of Gravitated
1. gravitate [v] - See also: gravitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravitated
Literary usage of Gravitated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The early Wesleyans also gravitated toward the rectoral theory, though not without
some hesitation, a hesitation which has sustained itself among Brit- ish ..."
2. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"He is the very last man I should have conceived to have gravitated to Lord
Castlereagh. ... gravitated ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1824)
"The planets gravitated to the sun, the moon to the earth, the satellites of
Jupiter toward Jupiter; and gravity, in all these instances, varied inversely as ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. ...by Robert Woodhouse by Robert Woodhouse (1818)
"If the Earth and Jupiter gravitated to the Sun by virtue of his attracting
particles, would" not Jupiter's satellites towards Jupiter, and the Moon towards ..."
5. The Queen V. William Palmer: Official Report of the Minutes of Evidence by William Palmer, Angelo Barnett, Buckler, Great Britain Central Criminal Court (1856)
"... sanguineo-serous fluid which occupied the canal to & considerable extent,
having gravitated to this dependent part of the body subsequent to its death. ..."
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