Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rising; swelling; surging.
- noun In geology, a division of the Paleozoic system, according to the nomenclature suggested by H. D. Rogers, but not generally adopted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Rising; swelling, as a flood.
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- adjective
Surging ; rising.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When a parade of Linux companies went public last year, the market paid attention in part because Intel -- a major partner of Microsoft's -- revealed through its investments that it would support the in-surgent operating system.
King Of The Vcs 2008
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I seen him acting surgent what betwinks the scimitar star and the ashen moon.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Et surgent septem anni famis post eos: et erit in oblivione omnis abundantia in terra Aegypti, et consumet fames terram.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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It is not easy, of course, given the surgent fluid and the slippery surface.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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It is not easy, of course, given the surgent fluid and the slippery surface.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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But then he gripped my hips so I could scarcely move, and pulled me tight to him, and was eager, surgent and eruptive within me!
Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986
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It is the wonderful, robust vividness of their artless yet supremely true utterance; it is the natural vigor of their surgent, unsophisticated human rhythm.
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Democracy has encountered obstacles, not merely imposed from without, but spontaneously surgent from within.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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These shafts shall quell the surgent dark and burst
The Masque of the Elements Herman George Scheffauer 1902
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Angelo cried, and they streamed forward under the hurry of stars and scud, till thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
Vittoria — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868
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