Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Burdened; charged; laden; pregnant: as, “clouds gestant with heat,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant.
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- adjective Bearing within;
laden ;burdened ;pregnant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[6723] Nocte dieque suum gestant in pectore testem.
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Et notandum, quòd per totam patriam singulæ mulieres maritatæ, vt intelligantur maritis subiectæ, et vt discernantur à solutis, gestant in capitis summitate similitudinem pedis viri, longitudinis brachij et dimidij, quadam leui materia operatam: videlicet nobiles de sericosis operibus pannorum, seu alijs raris et pulchris pannis, et preciosis lapillis, et ignobiles iuxta statum suum de materia communiori.
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Et notandum, qu騞 per totam patriam singul� mulieres maritat�, vt intelligantur maritis subiect�, et vt discernantur � solutis, gestant in capitis summitate similitudinem pedis viri, longitudinis brachij et dimidij, quadam leui materia operatam: videlicet nobiles de sericosis operibus pannorum, seu alijs raris et pulchris pannis, et preciosis lapillis, et ignobiles iuxta statum suum de materia communiori.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He does not respect the person of his gestant wife, and this disregard of natural law is the most potent failure in the curtailment of natural increase.
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Aderat forte unus ex his, quos nos generosos uocamus, & qui semper cornu aliquod a tergo pende {n} s gestant, acsi etiam inter prandendu {m} uenare {n} tur.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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"Octaviae imagines gestant humeris, spargunt floribus, _foroque ac templis_ statuunt" (XIV. 61); and in the first six books in the description of servile Romans following Sejanus in crowds to
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Hunc, cum responsum petitur, navigio aurato gestant
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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Et notandum, quòd per totam patriam singulæ mulieres maritatæ, vt intelligantur maritis subiectæ, et vt discernantur à solutis, gestant in capitis summitate similitudinem pedis viri, longitudinis brachij et dimidij, quadam leui materia operatam: videlicet nobiles de sericosis operibus pannorum, seu alijs raris et pulchris pannis, et preciosis lapillis, et ignobiles iuxta statum suum de materia communiori.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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