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Definition of Lentor
1. n. Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.
Definition of Lentor
1. Noun. slowness, sluggishness ¹
2. Noun. "...she walked through dilating space with the '''lentor''' of one walking under water..." — Nabokov's Lolita, 1955 ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete physics) viscosity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lentor
1. sluggishness [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentor
Literary usage of Lentor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"That there is a lentor, thickening, or viscidity of the blood. 2. ... The doctrine
of lentor of the blood prevailed for the greater part of a century, ..."
2. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1829)
"This constitutes the error loci of the mathematical physiologists, and by the
lentor and error loci were the phenomena of local inflammation explained by ..."
3. The Institutions of the Practice of Medicine: Delivered in a Course of by Giambattista Borsieri de Kanilfeld (1800)
"But admitting, like- wife, a periodical return of lentor of the blood, ...
as depending wholly upon lentor of the blood, and by no means yield to the bark, ..."
4. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"3, The supposition of a preternatural lentor or viscidity of the blood, ...
5, I presume that no such general lentor, as Boerhaave and his disciples have ..."
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