preterlabent, a. rare.
(priːtəˈleɪbənt)
Also præter-.
[ad. L. præterlābent-em, pres. pple. of præterlābī to glide or flow by, f. præter, preter- + lābī to glide.]
Gliding or flowing past.
| 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 5 Those differ..according to..the different impregnation of the preterlabent water. 1757 Walker in Phil. Trans. L. 143 The præterlabent streams of water. 1905 H. A. Evans Oxf. & Cotswolds xiii. 314 There is the old garden behind the house, with the stone steps descending thereunto, and the praeterlabent Coln. |