nictate

(XVIII^e siècle) Du latin nictāre.

To nictate

nictate

1. Cligner de l’œil.
   • Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed. — (Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato, Chatto & Windus 1963, 1909)
   • Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating. — (Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955)
2. (Zoologie) Fermer la membrane nictitante.
   • In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed. — (Perry & Wharton, Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival, p. 113, 2011)

cligner de l’œil

• blink
• wink

• (Royaume-Uni), (États-Unis) : \nɪkˈteɪt\

• entatic
• tetanic

• Cet article utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC-BY-SA-3.0 : nictate.

nictate \Prononciation ?\

1. Vocatif masculin singulier de nictatus.