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  • verb Present participle of reticulate.

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Examples

  • From Hartshorne's point of view the linkage of attributes within the first group and within the second group needs to be corrected by a greater concern for reticulating the attributes in these two groups.

    Charles Hartshorne Dombrowski, Dan 2009

  • Wwallace you are a reversed polarized self injected twit of toroidal proportions, reticulating your inert propaganda uselessly, tell your ‘master’ to pull your OFF switch.

    Think Progress » Secretary of Defense Lieberman? 2005

  • Here you may observe, from your perch upon the hill, an assemblage of roads actively reticulating and radiating, winding through the valleys, slinking off misanthropically into a tunnel, or gayly parading away elbow-in-elbow with the streams.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

  • And the blue tints under the eyes, he remembered them, and how the blue purpled, the rose red in the cheeks, and the various changes -- the greys in the chin, the blue veins reticulating in the round white neck, and the pink shapes of the ear showing through the shadow.

    Sister Teresa 1892

  • The stem is more slender than in the other species, _D. duplicata_, the pileus more nearly conic, and the surface of the pileus is merely granular or minutely wrinkled after the disappearance of the gleba, and does not present the strong reticulating ridges and crests which that species shows.

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • In modern times, a better digested system of religion, a more general diffusion of knowledge, and a net work of railroads and telegraphs, reticulating entire countries, while opening new avenues to truth, have hermetically sealed many sources of error.

    North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852 1861

  • Spurs or ramifications of high mountains, making down from the Alps, and, as it were, reticulating these provinces, give to the valleys the protection of a particular inclosure to each, and the benefit of a general stagnation of the northern winds produced by the whole of them, and thus countervail the advantage of several degrees of latitude.

    The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Spurs or ramifications of high mountains, making down from the Alps, and, as it were, reticulating these provinces, give to the vallies the protection of a particular inclosure to each, and the benefit of a general stagnation of the northern winds produced by the whole of them, and thus countervail the advantage of several degrees of latitude.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Spurs or ramifications of high mountains, making down from the Alps, and as it were, reticulating these provinces, give to the vallies the protection of a particular inclosure to each, and the benefit of a general stagnation of the northern winds produced by the whole of them, and thus countervail the advantage of several degrees of latitude.

    Letters 1760

  • Proudly displaying a water distribution kit that consists of a frame, hangers, calibrated containers, hose, valves, T-joiners and manifolds, he will challenge the student team to develop a new, cutting-edge way of reticulating water around the nation.

    northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star 2010

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