All 4 Uses of
dilate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Pores to dilate dilating.†
Chpt 11
- Pores to dilate dilating.†
Chpt 11 *
- …the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ resulting in the phenomenon which has been denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and outwards…†
Chpt 12
- BLOOM: (His eyes wildly dilated, clasps himself) Show!†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(dilate as in: dilated eyes) become wider (bigger)