Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sending forth; emitting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Sending forth; emitting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Sending forth;
emitting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I began experiencing intermittent problems with my Vonage voice over IP telephone service that were getting less inter and more mittent.
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Nothing has perplexed phyficiana more than to account for the periodi - cal returns of the paroxyfma in inter - mittent fevers.
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Its root pounded and carpos taken in a moderate dofe is an infallible remedy againft inter - mittent fevers.
Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana. 1771
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(albeit in diminishing strength) since 1941, he began to take on all the characteristics which the generals had so long ascribed to him, and which they had used to excuse their own inter - mittent disobedience.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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6: _Si quis in me non manserit, in ignem mittent et ardet_, made by the medieval canonists, is not worth discussing.
The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church 1888
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0907-01 For the office of the director, including not more than twenty-six permanent positions and not more than fifty permanent inter - mittent positions $222,205 00
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