1706. De Foe, Jure Div., V. 13. The stagnate Vapours of the Flood. Ibid., 30. When … the Stagnate Brain Resolves on Death, our Application’s vain.
1731. T. Gordon, Tacitus, Agricola, II. 360. This Sea [the Orkneys] they report to be slow and stagnate.
1761. Ann. Reg., Charac., 41/1. The air becomes grosser and grosser until it becomes torpid and stagnate.
1794. Mary Wollstonecraft, View Fr. Rev., I. 520. Lazy friars are driven out of their cells as stagnate bodies that corrupt society.
1813. J. C. Hobhouse, Journ. (ed. 2), 683. The ancient port of Troas, a small circular basin, half choked up and stagnate.
1818. Ann. Reg., Chron., 570. A large pool of stagnate water.
a. 1845. Hood, Lamia, vii. 4. Such a calm As a shipmate curses on the stagnate sea Under the torrid zone.
