durate

present singular third person durates · participle present durating · participle past durated · past durated

1. uncommonhuman sciencesTo have, or last for, some duration (of time).

   Fear is often found associated with the uncertainty of doubt and with the durating sense of strangeness that characterize a well-developed state of marvel.

   1910, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz, Studies in the Marvellous, page 88

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   But in the same way as we shall say of our simple creature that he perceives his sensation when it exists at all, and that he perceives time when it (the sensation) durates at all, 80 we shall say he perceives a certain definite[…]

   1891, Herbert Nichols, The Psychology of Time: Historically and Philosophically Considered, with Extended Experiments

   "Perception of time duration is always a process and never a state — for us to perceive five seconds, something must durate five seconds, for us to perceive a year some definite sensation would have to durate a year."

   1903, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, Pulse and Rhythm, page 430

   Simply because a sentence of, say, ten words necessitates a time period, e.g. 5 seconds, i.e. it durates. The formal description of English during a given period will result in what English is.

   1988 02, Richard E. Schade, Lessing Yearbook XIX, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 117