alternise

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A form of alternize — To alternate or take turns.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

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

present singular third person alternises · participle present alternising · participle past alternised · past alternised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of alternize.

    When 'shine and rain alternise, and cool evenings follow the heat of day, to avoid all risk of chill and discomfort you should […]

    1919 May 31, “FOR SUMMER DAYS”, in Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, volume 91, page 457
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    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.

    1921, International Institute of Refrigeration, Bulletin - Volume 2, page 153

    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.

    2014, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff, Shaping a Humane World, page 134

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