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alternise (third-person singular simple present alternises, present participle alternising, simple past and past participle alternised)

  1. Alternative form of alternize
    • 1919 May 31, “FOR SUMMER DAYS”, in Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, volume 91, page 457:
      When 'shine and rain alternise, and cool evenings follow the heat of day, to avoid all risk of chill and discomfort you should []
    • 1921, International Institute of Refrigeration, Bulletin - Volume 2, page 153:
      The importation of different kinds of ammoniacal products varies greatly each year; the average of the last seven years is 37 tons. Germany, England and the United States have alternised in the first place.
    • 2014, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff, Shaping a Humane World, page 134:
      His concept of ›discursive tradition‹ appears to me as a sort of religious, and more specifically Islamic, simplification of Foucault's ›dispositif‹, alternising a variety of reflections of continuity, both religious and secular, into a pattern of inner, historically loaded bondage.

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