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adjective

Frequent adj.

Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers."

Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. "He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government."

Full; crowded; thronged. (Obs.) "'T is Caesar's will to have a frequent senate."

Often or commonly reported. (Obs.) "'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci."

verb

Frequent v. t. (past & past part. frequented; pres. part. frequenting)

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern. "He frequented the court of Augustus."

To make full; to fill. (Obs.) "With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite."

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... be frank with each other. I am not a clever man; perhaps a dull one. If I had set up for a clever man, I should not be where I am now. Hush! no compliments. But my life has brought me into frequent contact with those who suffer; and the dullest of us gain a certain sharpness in the matters to which our observation is habitually drawn. You took me in at first, it is true. I thought you were a philanthropical ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the Phoebe and the Cherub. The third British ship, the Raccoon, had gone north to the Columbia. As has before been said, Captain Hillyar was an old friend of Porter's. The two men had been thrown together in the Mediterranean, and the American had been a frequent visitor in the other's house at Gibraltar. On one occasion Hillyar's family had made a passage from Malta to Gibraltar in an American ship-of-war; for in those troubled times would-be voyagers had to avail themselves of such ...

— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan

... the effect on deafness is concerned, are not of relatively frequent occurrence. But where they do take place, there is found a decided connection between them and deafness, the increased tendency thus to transmit a physical abnormality being plain. How far, however, if at all, such deafness is to be directly ascribed to consanguineous marriages, is a matter for question. ...

— The Deaf - Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their - Education in the United States • Harry Best

... the primitive Christians, when that practice can be satisfactorily ascertained; and it so happened that the times during which the Church is universally acknowledged to have been in the highest state of purity were times of frequent and violent political change. One at least of the Apostles appears to have lived to see four Emperors pulled down in little more than a year. Of the martyrs of the third century a great proportion must have been able to remember ten or twelve revolutions. Those martyrs ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... illustrate this double-facedness of the Renaissance by Montaigne (second half of sixteenth century). His Essays make for rationalism, but contain frequent professions of orthodox Catholicism, in which he was perfectly sincere. There is no attempt to reconcile the two points of view; in fact, he takes the sceptical position that there is no bridge between ...

— A History of Freedom of Thought • John Bagnell Bury

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