a. = UNDULATORY a.

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1790.  G. Saunders, Treat. Theatres, 11. Kircher, and most that follow him, after explaining the progress of sound to be undulative, go on comparing it’s properties to that of light.

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1810.  Belfast Monthly Mag., V. Oct., 272/2. Its little knolls forming a fine undulative appearance.

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1824.  G. Furman, Rural Hours, 63.

        The snow in undulative wreaths did roll,
And Winter held the world in his control.

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1860.  Worcester (citing Fletcher).

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1874.  Overland Monthly, XII. May, 411.

        Of the incense flowers and trees,
And the undulative breeze.

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1904.  H. Carter & P. E. Newberry, Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV, 143. They [the warp-strings] are looser in some parts than in others, to which the warp owes its undulative appearance.

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