Definition of Leresis

1. Noun. Rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Leresis

leptospiruria
leptosporangiate
leptosporangium
leptostraca
leptotene
leptotenes
leptothricosis
leptothrix
leptus
leptynite
leptynites
lerdelimumab
lere
lered
leres
leresis (current term)
lergotrile
leriche's syndrome
lering
lermontovite
lernaea
lernaeacea
lernaean
lernean
lerot
lerp
lerps
lerret
lerrets

Literary usage of Leresis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Theoretical and Applied Colloid Chemistry, "the World of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1922)
"Such leresis may be seen even in ordinary starch paste. What must be the consequence of the syneresis? The sponge constituting the bread must suffer tension ..."

2. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"... if it occur in patients already improving from acute mental disorders. Nearly all such cases recover. GEO. H. SAVAGE. RHINO LEREM A. RHINO leresis (pis ..."

3. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, Franklin Rives, George A. Bailey (1855)
"... in- leresis of the Government. It proposed to seil quarter sections at the minimum price for the benefit of counties. But this privilege gentlemen ..."

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