ppl. a. [f. STAGNATE v. + -ING2.] Becoming or remaining stagnant.

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1678–9.  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.

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1707.  Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 16. It gives that motion to the stagnating Blood which shakes the Artery and distends it.

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1715.  Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 136. The … unwholsomness of stagnating and vitiated Air.

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1891.  Nature, 20 Aug., 370/2. A moory soil with stagnating and high-standing ground water.

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1897.  Allbutt’s 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.

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1848.  Gallenga, Italy, I. p. xxxii. The stagnating age that preceded the French revolution.

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1905.  A. I. Shand, Days of Past, iii. 37. The dead-alive towns of stagnating Germany.

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