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Definitions
briefly shut the eyes
Word origin
First attested in 1755; borrowed from Latin nictātus, perfect passive participle of nictō (“to wink, blink”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Used in a sentence
“Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.”
“Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.”
“In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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