Definition of Nictitated

1. Verb. (past of nictitate) ¹

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Definition of Nictitated

1. nictitate [v] - See also: nictitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nictitated

nicotinists
nicotinomimetic
nicotinoyl
nicotins
nicotinyl alcohol
nicotinyl tartrate
nicoumalone
nictate
nictated
nictates
nictating
nictation
nictations
nictitant
nictitate
nictitated (current term)
nictitates
nictitating
nictitating membrane
nictitating membranes
nictitating spasm
nictitation
nictitations
nicy-nicy
nid
nidal
nidamental
nidaries
nidary
nidate

Literary usage of Nictitated

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

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1781)
"... he had a book of prayers from which he ever removed hi« eyes, and the motion of his lips denoted that he nictitated every word ; he allo attended at ..."

2. A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery: With Some by Edmund Robert Daniell (1845)
"Draper, 1 R. & M. 191, in which a hill was nictitated by a solicitor for payment of cost« due to him from a client, and it appeared upon the answer, ..."

3. The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: Newspaper Index and Annals by James Suter (1903)
"_ dates finn 1788, in which year it was nictitated. A printed notice which once came into oar hands contains the originai constitution and regulation*. ..."

4. The Municipal Manual for Upper Canada by J. Balfour (1855)
"... or By-laws to be passed for that purpose by the Municipal Corporation by this Act nictitated for such former Municipal Corporation; Provided always, ..."

5. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"It was nictitated that a rod of ordinary brickwork would require 4,3'J bricks, which, at 32s. per thousand, would cost £7. On tin other hand, ..."

6. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1860)
"... and clapping him on too • -J Ь »e thought at Dril tight little nictitated fur hil »o- ' ' A rough ..."

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