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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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... honorary occupation—my pay having formed no inducement, and being quite inadequate in countries where, in matters of expenditure, a dollar passes for little more than a shilling in England, and liable, as I was, from my wandering life, and with a family—to the losses incurred by a frequent breaking up of establishment. I allude to these matters, not for the purpose of complaint, but in support of the position that, as a disinterested and impartial administrator of the affairs entrusted to my charge, I was actuated by no selfish or ...

— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin

... taken up his abode temporarily in that vicinity, was a frequent visitor and sometimes brought a brother artist with him. Dick's cronies came too, and old friends of the family from ...

— Elsie's children • Martha Finley

... realized the folly in which I was indulging myself, I shook off my credulity and endeavored to listen with interest, but without judgment, for in this way only could I most thoroughly enjoy the strange narrative; but my lapses into unconscious belief were frequent. ...

— The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander • Frank R. Stockton

... patience and resoluteness in the wife; and an immense pity felt by the poet's adorers for his trials by a persecuting Fate. During the summer and autumn, his mention of his wife to his correspondents became less frequent and more formal. His tone about his approaching "papaship" tells nothing. He was not likely to show to such men any good or natural feelings on the occasion. In December, his daughter, Augusta Ada, was born; and early in January, ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various

... them slowly to change their manner of life and their habitual actions. Through the effects of the second and third of the laws cited above, these induced activity-changes must have brought into being new organs, and must have been able to develop them further if more frequent use was made of them; they must in the same way have been capable of bringing about the degeneration and finally the complete disappearance of existing organs which had ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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