Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sliding; gliding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Slipping; sliding; gliding.
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- adjective
sliding ;gliding
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Examples
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The first is _EP_ III ii 5-6 'cumque labent alii _iactataque_ uela relinquant,/tu lacerae remanes ancora sola rati', where _iactata_ means 'storm-whipped'; compare Statius _Theb_ VII 139-41 'uento/incipiente ... laxi _iactantur_ ubique rudentes'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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