Citations:tergant

English citations of tergant

1906, Hartley Burr Alexander, “V. The Imagination”, in Poetry and the Individual: An Analysis of the Imaginative Life in Relation to the Creative Spirit in Man and Nature, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, pages 115–116:
Introspective impartiality, therefore, seldom if ever co-exists with the psychical activities which are the object of introspective interest. Such activities always have to be observed retrospectively, either in memory or in half vision of their fleeing forms; our best are but scant glimpses of tergant fugitives.
1924 February, James Gould Cozzens, Confusion, Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, page 288:
The impression of interludes which seemed obscurely enlightening haunted her, but a glance at the winter past and spring already tergant did nothing to confirm it.

1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 61:
Tergant―(ter'-gant) Showing the back part; as, an eagle tergant displayed. [In this connection compare RECURSANT.]

1681, William Bates, Vitæ selectorum aliquot virorum qui doctrinâ, dignitate, aut pietate inclaruere:
[...] pedes uterque abluit, nec utrique capilli desunt pro linteis, quibus Christi pedes tergant. Christum uterque lavat, & ab eo vicissim uterque lavatur. Ità quod de [...]
1687, Jacob Spon, The history of the city and state of Geneva, from its first foundation to this present time faithfully collected from several manuscripts of Jacobus Gothofredus, Monsieur Chorier, and others:
[...] virtus, caetera pul∣vis habet. / Disce tuum quisquis simili pede claudere passum, / Et tergant oculos haec monumen∣ta tuos. [...]
1695, John Betts, De ortu et natura sanguinis a Joanne Betto ...:
[...]jusmodi corpora incîdant, dividant, farctu liberent, citra calefactionem perpurgent, penetrent, tergant, densent, asperent, calorem extinguant, acre obtundant, rebus insipidis ac dulcibus vigorem ac [...]