ppl. a. [f. STAGNATE v. + -ING2.] Becoming or remaining stagnant.
16789. Newton, Lett., 28 Feb., in Birch, Life Boyle (1744), 235. The cause of filtration, and of the rising of water in small glass pipes above the surface of the stagnating water they are dipped into.
1707. Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 16. It gives that motion to the stagnating Blood which shakes the Artery and distends it.
1715. Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 136. The unwholsomness of stagnating and vitiated Air.
1891. Nature, 20 Aug., 370/2. A moory soil with stagnating and high-standing ground water.
1897. Allbutts Syst. Med., IV. 35. In stagnating bile the bile salts were apt to undergo decomposition.
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1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. i. Some sharpness of temper, spurting at times from a stagnating character.
1848. Gallenga, Italy, I. p. xxxii. The stagnating age that preceded the French revolution.
1905. A. I. Shand, Days of Past, iii. 37. The dead-alive towns of stagnating Germany.