restagnate

English

Etymology

Latin restagnare to overflow.

Verb

restagnate (third-person singular simple present restagnates, present participle restagnating, simple past and past participle restagnated)

1. (obsolete) To stagnate; to cease to flow.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     the Bloud returns thick, and is apt to restagnate, and usually increaseth the Veins at those times to fix or seven

References

“restagnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• argentates, gnateaters