Both Uses of
stagnate
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
- As where Rhone stagnates on the plains of Arles, Or as at Pola, near Quarnaro's gulf, That closes Italy and laves her bounds, The place is all thick spread with sepulchres; So was it here, save what in horror here Excell'd: for 'midst the graves were scattered flames, Wherewith intensely all throughout they burn'd, That iron for no craft there hotter needs.†
Canto 1.1-11
- In the heat of autumn it was formerly rendered unwholesome by the stagnation of the water, but has since been drained by the Emperor Leopold II.
Canto 1.N *stagnation = lack of movement
Definition:
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(stagnate) staying still or not developing