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Definition of Intermitting
1. intermit [v] - See also: intermit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intermitting
Literary usage of Intermitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Medicine: Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1790)
"intermitting fevers afford the beft oppor- •*• tunity both of ... an intermitting
fever from any other, and the proper medicine for it is now ..."
2. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke, Abraham Mills (1844)
"intermitting. A LOW, tremulous, intermitting sound, though it seems, in some
respects, opposite to that just mentioned, is productive of the sublime. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"intermitting A LOW, tremulous, intermitting sound, though it seems in some respects
opposite to that just mentioned, is productive of the sublime. ..."
4. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including the Various Species of Fever, and by Alexander Philips Wilson Philip (1813)
"BOOK I. OF intermitting AND REMITTING ... to the definition given in the
Introduction, intermitting and remitting fevers ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics: For the Use of Colleges and Schools of Science by William Guy Peck (1870)
"The intermitting siphon is represented in the figure. ... intermitting Springs.
202. Let A represent a subterranean cavity, communicating with the surface ..."
6. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1877)
"All the effects mentioned in this section have causes very nearly alike. SECTION XIX.
intermitting. A LOW, tremulous, intermitting sound, though it seems, ..."
7. American Medical and Philosophical Register: Or, Annals of Medicine, Natural by John Wakefield Francis (1814)
"FACTS relative to the Effects of certain Preparations of ARSENIC in intermitting
FEVERS, with occasional Remarks. By Dr. William Currie, Fellow of the ..."
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