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Definition of Respiring
1. respire [v] - See also: respire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Respiring
Literary usage of Respiring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1886)
"... rather announce the divinity of some temple than a mere object of sculpture
displaying, as it is thought, the muscles of a man just respiring from toil. ..."
2. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"... auditory passages.2 Smells are conveyed to the olfactory organ by air and
water : they are inhaled with the air by respiring animals ; to non-respiring ..."
3. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1862)
"... a Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the New Chambers for respiring Pulverised
Mineral Water in the Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. ..."
4. The Effects of Lead Upon Healthy Individuals: Compiled and Arranged from 592 by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"respiring heavily (after five hours),107.— Respiration slow and-indolent ;
expiration stertorous, on account of weakened power of the ..."
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