libant

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lībāns, present participle of lībō (“to taste, touch”).

Adjective

libant (comparative more libant, superlative most libant)

  1. (poetic) Sipping; touching lightly.
    • 1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, , London: Rivingtons, , →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125:
      VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]
    • 1901 May, Eleanor Booth Simmons, “In May”, in The Bookman, volume 13, number 3, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 252:
      What delicate odours are blown abroad, caught by the libant wind / From the springing wheat on yonder slope, from the alden grove behind!
    • 1901, [Louis Eilshemius], “Love: Sweet Recollections”, in Poetical Works of Louis M. Elshemus, First series, New York: The Abbey Press Publishers, page 264:
      The libant libellula darts to the bush / Where safe it sippeth from the laurel’s chaste

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Latin

Verb

lībant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of lībō
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