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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... ...
... grooms of the led-chamber (then maids of honour) would not eat chalk and
lime in their green-sickness : and in general, that the men would remember they
are become retromingent, and not by inadvertency lift up against walls and posts.
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, 1766
God knows where I found “retromingent,” but it was theperfect word forthe
occasion, describing that subspecies of ants(andother animals) which urinate
backwards. Hissupporters were outraged—Santa Barbara dentists, retired
admirals, small ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine
Its termination is backward in a curved direction, so that he is a retromingent
animal, and consequently retrogencrative. When he urines, he turns his tail to the
q wall, and, extending his hind legs asunder, crumps himself up, and pisses out
in a ...
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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, in which are Explained the ...
... in the sun in Richmond gardens, with what appeared to be a complete erection
. I described what I saw, and stated that although the animal is retromingent, the
penis comes forward and terminates in a small point, there. being no prepuce.
... days and nights thirty-one ;" since, if the truth must out, so far from being a
retromingent animal, in point of fact, as the learned Knight of Norwich observes, it
has no " distinct and. separate miction ;" at all. The anointing of Lord Essex's chair
, ...
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Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours
In the Arguments field, enter retromingent purple lactoseintolerant and click OK.
Because you've customized the project, you must run it a little differently. Choose
the menu command Run, Run Main Project. The application uses the arguments
...
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Notes of a Wanderer, in Search of Health, Through Italy, ...
Amongst the many peculiarities of this singular animal, is that of his being
retromingent ; there is no other male quadruped, so far as I am aware, of a similar
conformation. The Arabs have a quaint enough manner of accounting for this ...
William Fullerton Cumming, 1839
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Notes of a wanderer, in search of health, through Italy, ...
Amongst the many peculiarities of this singular animal, is that of his being
retromingent ; there is no other male quadruped, so far as I am aware, of a similar
conformation. The Arabs have a quaint enough manner of accounting for this ...
William Fullerton Cumming, 1839
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Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of ...
found to be the case in the papio maimon and the simia cy nomolgus), and they
are, consequently, retromingent and retrq-copulant. Mr. HUKTER, who had had
opportunities of observing the process, informs us that " monkeys always
copulate ...
Sir William Lawrence, 1819
"He gave a great talk," Rod said, ' 'and taught us all a new word, ' retromingent. ' ' '
When Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post used the words, "retromingent vigi
lante," to describe Reed in a letter, Reed had it framed and put on a wall in the ...
Accuracy in Media, inc, 2003
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'In Search of Sir Thomas Browne,' by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
(Other coinages failed to take: like “retromingent,” for urinating backward.) Browne's influence led to a revival of the mandarin tendency in 18th-century prose, ... «New York Times, 七月 15»
Hugh Aldersey-Williams: The Adventures Of Sir Thomas Browne In …
He is credited with giving us 'electricity', 'hallucination' and 'medical' but also the less familiar 'retromingent', or 'urinating rearwards'. Aldersey-Williams gleefully ... «Herald Scotland, 六月 15»
After campus stupidity, some quick and forceful campus action
... on the steps in front of Duke Chapel on Wednesday to show that they weren't down with what the retromingent, yellow-bellied yellow rope-hanger stood for. «News & Observer, 四月 15»
Saunders: Who has the Brasstown possum's best interest at heart?
... or to at least put down possum crosswalks on highways and city streets to cut down on the number of the varmints that become retromingent roadkill. «News & Observer, 十二月 14»
Ben Bradlee Was Not The Journalist The Left Would Like Us To …
... Bradlee called Reed Irvine “a miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante.” It's not really important what that insult means. It's more important why Bradlee said it. «Western Journalism, 十一月 14»
Ben Bradlee Could Teach Us All a Thing or Two About Real Disruption
Bradlee would have liked that word, since he seemed to like using unusual words a lot — look up “retromingent,” which the barrel-chested journalist had once ... «Re/code, 十月 14»
Sideswipe: September 26: Double Act
One of those elephants is retromingent. It's such a lovely word and, at last, I've got a chance to use it! John Northcott - 09:59 AM Friday, 26 Sep 2014. 27Like ... «New Zealand Herald, 九月 14»
Authorisms: Words Wrought By Writers review – 'a fascinating history …
a dire-sounding but nonsensical curse from a Dumas novel – or Ben Bradlee's gloriously learned "retromingent", which refers to insects that pee backwards; ... «The Guardian, 六月 14»
House Republicans Need to Push Immigration Reform Now
... tea partiers, cranky talk radio hosts and retromingent racists to whom anything other than “round them up and send them home” is regarded as amnesty. «U.S. News & World Report, 六月 14»
Book Review: 'Authorisms' by Paul Dickson
He observes that the adjective "retromingent" (urinating backward) was not coined by Ben Bradlee, the former editor of the Washington Post. And indeed it ... «Wall Street Journal, 四月 14»
