Crossword clues for mentioning
mentioning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mention \Men"tion\ (m[e^]n"sh[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mentioned (m[e^]n"sh[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Mentioning.] To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.
I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord.
--Is.
lxiii. 7.
Wiktionary
n. An act of something being mentioned. vb. (present participle of mention English)
Usage examples of "mentioning".
When Dowling attended, Allworthy put the case of the banknotes to him, without mentioning any name, and asked in what manner such a person might be punished.
Borellus, Bartholinus, Thoner, and Viridet, are among the older authorities mentioning persons who swallowed toads.
Pinel calls attention particularly to the analogy in this case by mentioning that if the captain were exposed to fatigue, privation, cold, etc.
He also quotes Davies, mentioning an instance of a fetus of five months, which lived twelve hours, weighing 2 pounds, and measuring 12 inches, and which cried vigorously.
Bordenave is quoted as mentioning a human monster formed of three fetuses, but his description proves clearly that it was only the union of two.
Many authors are accredited with mentioning instances of defective or deficient uteri, among them Bosquet, Boyer, Walther, Le Fort, Calori, Pozzi, Munde, and Strauch.
Petersburg in mentioning a soldier of twenty-one who had a supernumerary testicle erroneously diagnosed as inguinal hernia.
Pennant in mentioning a woman in Rosshire who lived one and three-quarters years without meat or drink.
Wilson Fox, in mentioning a case of rheumatic fever, says the temperature reached 110 degrees F.
Cheyne is quoted as mentioning a case in which, when the subject heard the noise of a drum, blood jetted from the veins with considerable force.
Wood quotes Cowan in mentioning the case of a child of four, who in two days recovered from a teaspoonful of croton oil taken on a full stomach.
Frank and the Philosophical Transactions are among the older authorities mentioning this accident.
Self-mutilation is seen in the lower animals, and Kennedy, in mentioning the case of a hydrocephalic child who ate off its entire under lip, speaks also of a dog, of cats, and of a lioness who ate off their tails.
According to Dupony, the first document mentioning variola was in 570 A.
Anderson, while he stayed, so passionately accompanied her, that he was often on the very point of mentioning the circumstance of the robbery.