Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying hidden; latent; hibernating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Lying hid; concealed; latent.
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- adjective archaic Lying
hid ;concealed ;latent .
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Examples
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Tonitrua supra modum timent: tunc omnes extraneos emittunt de domibus suis; et inuoluunt se in filtris nigris, in quibus latitant, donec transierit.
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Item: Multi etiam ad pellendam frigoris asperitatem in cauernis latitant, quemadmodum Africani ad solis æstum vitandum.
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Tonitrua supra modum timent: tunc omnes extraneos emittunt de domibus suis; et inuoluunt se in filtris nigris, in quibus latitant, donec transierit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item: Multi etiam ad pellendam frigoris asperitatem in cauernis latitant, quemadmodum Africani ad solis 鎠tum vitandum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Isti sunt fratres mei milites tabulae rotundae, qui latitant in desertis"; his
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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The stars twinkled, as we have said, but they gave no light to the road; and on either side there were sundry brakes, and lanes, and hedges, and groups of trees which were sufficiently shady and latitant in the mid-day, and which certainly were impervious to any ray of light then above the horizon.
The King's Highway 1830
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Item: Multi etiam ad pellendam frigoris asperitatem in cauernis latitant, quemadmodum Africani ad solis æstum vitandum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
qms commented on the word latitant
Another goblinite sycophant
Unloading another bat shit rant.
If these are opinions
Of his loyal minions
What follies await still latinant.
April 13, 2019