The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alternat \Al`ter`nat"\, n. [F.] A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
Wiktionary
n. The custom, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
Usage examples of "alternat".
Torien's deep voice, representing Earth, alternated now with his wife Jolan's ringing words as she personified Fire.
Ossetia was a sweet landlow forested hills alternating with pastures and farms, wearing autumn colors of leaf and flower that were a feast to Sunrunner senses.
He was covered to the neck by a silken quilt stitched in an alternating blue and orange pattern, Tuath's colors, bordered with the blue and white of Remagev to which he had been heir.
The towers on either side looked as though covered in quilts made of alternate dark and glowing rectangles.
His hands still sweated in riding gauntlets, his guts still fluttered, and his heart alternately raced and thudded in his chest.
One must wait for alternatives to develop, then choose which action to take.
Treatises on "Par-ageography" arriv'd, with alternative Maps of the World superimpos'd upon the more familiar ones.
As he arose, slowly, holding his head, blowing out alternate Nostrils, her Voice first reach'd him.
Damme if the Baton won't part it from ye, along with some Skin," such mention of Torture increasing day by day, as if his Alternatives had narrow'd to it.
Mason, for there is lengthy Knowledge of such things, according to which, alternating Layers of different Substances are ever a Sign of the intention to Accumulate Force, not necessarily Electrical, neither, perhaps, Captain, these Substances Mr.
Mason's eyes fallen into an Alternating Squint, with one right-left-right Cycle taking about a Second.