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gestant

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin gestāns, present participle of gestō.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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gestant (comparative more gestant, superlative most gestant)

  1. Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant, gestating.
    • 1851, Browning, Casa Guidi Windows:
      Clouds gestant with the heat.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gestant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Verb

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gestant

  1. gerund of gestar

Latin

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Verb

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gestant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of gestō