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ˈstill-stand
Also stillstand.
[f. still a. + stand n. So Du. stilstand, G. stillstand.]
1. a. A stand-still. rare. Also spec. in Path.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 64 As with the Tyde, swell'd vp vnto his height, That makes a still-stand, running neyther way. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. i, And so, towards the end of 1783, matters threaten to come to a still-stand. 1878M. Foster Physiol. iii. v. §2 (ed. 2) 479 The lymph hearts remained in a (diastolic) still-stand. 1885T. L. Brunton Text-bk. Pharmacol. etc. xxxiii. 912 The systolic stillstand is removed, and pulsation again recommences.
b. Physical Geogr. A condition in which there is no crustal movement in a region or no change in sea-level.
1896Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. VII. 393 The English School denies..the probability or even the possibility of a period of still-stand long enough for essentially complete subaerial denudation close to sea level, but assumes the possibility of a period of still-stand or of slight depression continuous and long enough to allow the sea waves to plane off the sinking lands. 1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xv. 218 The cycle [of erosion] can only move uninterruptedly to its close if it coincides with a period of still-stand, i.e. of unvarying base-level, unaffected by major climatic changes. 1966J. Wyckoff Rock, Time, & Landforms iv. 103 All believe that the reduction of vast, lofty highlands by erosion demands time spans of the order of 25 million years, during which there is virtual stillstand—that is lack of uplift. 1972R. A. Davis Princ. Oceanogr. xx. 322 One of the most prevalent and significant types of evidence is the presence of terraces which were formed during still-stands of sea level.
†2. spec. [After G. (waffen)stillstand, Du. stilstand (van wapenen).] An armistice. Obs.
1637R. Monro Exped. i. 74 A still-stand or cessation of Armes was concluded on by both parties, for a fortnights time. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xi, During a still-stand of arms. |