How To Use Infancy In A Sentence

These arrhythmias usually occur early in life during infancy or childhood.
From his observation and writings, it is clear that the structures of intelligence and feelings begin to evolve during infancy.
Unless perhaps the sixth year of the reign of Ezekias, in which Samaria was taken, they think is here called his infancy, that is, the infancy of his reign, not of his age; which even a fool must see to be hard and forced. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
The Naval Air Corps was then in its infancy and sorely needed a strong leader and champion.
But he proved just as incapable in manhood as he was in infancy. Times, Sunday Times

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Since infancy, his father scolded him when he didn't stand up for himself and encouraged him to fight back if he was pushed around. Times, Sunday Times
Low birthweight is strongly linked to deaths in the first week of life or during infancy. Times, Sunday Times
From infancy through early adolescence, Semai children are largely unconstrained and free of external domination.
Suburban planning was in its infancy.
Besides revealing our solar system to be far more cluttered than astronomers had suspected, these piffling objects are providing new clues about what conditions were like during the system's infancy.
Oral disease, especially dental caries, is complicated and multifactorial, and it often begins to develop during infancy.
Instead of the term SIDS, the certifiers used other terms, including "sudden infant death" and "sudden unexpected death in infancy. NPR Topics: News
Among the Eskimo the _angakok_, or shaman, trains his child from infancy in the art of sorcery, taking him upon his knee during his incantations and conjurations. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
What were the main theories of infancy which psychoanalysts had developed, based on their clinical sensitivity and intuition, by the time the trickle of infant research became a flood in the 70s?
Her youngest child died in infancy.
Parents and children were all buried together and although the parents lived to a decent old age they were unfortunate to lose their children, either in infancy, pre-adolescence or early adulthood.
'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate. The Mother's Book
Its stock markets, which were introduced on an experimental basis in the early l990s, are in their infancy.
Satellite and wireless Internet access are still in their infancy, and need years to develop.
Progress in the understanding of sensory and perceptual processes in early infancy. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
People learn to make visual sense of faces and other items of interest, often during infancy and early childhood but sometimes over much longer periods.
How do we picture a new age of genetic manipulation, of cloning, of cybernetics, a literal synergy between computing and biology, particularly when these are still in their infancy?
End user attitudes to seldom offered spyware screening services from ISPs mirror attitudes to spam filtering when such services were in their infancy four or five years ago.
To die in childhood or infancy is to be deprived of a natural life span; such a death makes one's life a stunted and unshapely affair.
The pair had both been introduced as substitutes with the game still in its infancy as a result of injuries. Times, Sunday Times
Freud focused on psychosexual development, seeing adolescence as a recapitulation of the development of sexual awareness in infancy.
Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent Letter 66
As the beta testers were already testing the game in its infancy, their valuable feedback helped shape the game to its current form.
Before their imaginations had fully wakened out of the primeval dream, the cosmogonies and theogonies, gross and monstrous, of their national infancy, they were asked to have an opinion about the classical mythology, as represented by the Latin poets; they were made acquainted with the miracles of the lives of saints. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
At that time organometallic chemistry was in its infancy and it provided a fertile field for a mechanistic chemist. Robert H. Grubbs - Autobiography
The iron trade was in its infancy, and those engaged in it lacked the resources for the acquisition of wealth that were evolved from the discovery of blackband mineral deposits by Mushet, the application of the hot blast by Neilson, and the introduction of other more economical modes of working. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
The term "flathead" was applied to the Songhees on account of the shape of his head, which was pressed flat with a piece of board strapped to his forehead while he was in a state of infancy. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
Army co-operation and close air support were in their infancy in the USA and dive-bombing seemed to be the answer.
Of necessity they have been learning on the job, developing ad hoc methods of reading when little or no guidelines were supplied in the discipline's infancy, and extrapolating from what they have gleaned supervising their own students.
Telephone scramblers, then in their infancy, were available to staff at senior headquarters.
Generally speaking, men's fathering behaviors do not center on an investment in childcare during infancy and early childhood.
I do not mean, that calling a boy Cicero will certainly make him an orator, or that all Jeremiahs are necessarily prophets; nor is it improbable, that the same peculiarities in the parents, which dictate these expressive names, may direct the characters of the children, by controlling their education; but it is unquestionable, that the characteristics, and even the fortunes of the man, are frequently daguerreotyped by a name given in infancy. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
When Albert Lutuli received his Peace Prize, the struggle against apartheid was in its infancy: there were few results to point to. The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - Presentation Speech
During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
It's probably because we were force-fed all those fairy tales from infancy, where everyone lives happily ever after at the end, but I don't see why the world can't work that way simply because it doesn't at the moment.
X-ray pelvimetry during pregnancy and labour increases the incidence of leukaemia in infancy, and should be abolished (Stewart et al 1956, 3. CARE DURING THE FIRST STAGE OF LABOUR
The erythrocytes in this volume of blood will soon be destroyed by haemolysis, but this provides about 50 mg of iron to the infants reserve and reduces the frequency of iron-deficiency anaemia later in infancy (Michaelsen et al 1995, Pisacane 1996). 5. CARE DURING THE THIRD STAGE OF LABOUR
But he proved just as incapable in manhood as he was in infancy. Times, Sunday Times
The initial anlage of the atherosclerotic plaque seen in adults can be seen as a fatty streak on the surface of the arterial wall during infancy.
Researchers know that the first burst of myelination occurs from infancy to the age of 3. Globe and Mail
Anyway, they patched me up with medical superglue which was in its infancy at that stage.
Whether man be the _vibrion_ or the heir to immortality, the bundle of carbon or the care of angels, one fact is indisputable: he suffers agonies, mental and physical, that are wholly out of proportion to the brevity of his life, while he is too often weighted from infancy with hereditary maladies, both of body and of character. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
The vaccination is given in early infancy.
Scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) and the Mahurangi Technical Institute (MTI) have been catching and tagging farmed rare giant kokopu, which in their infancy make up part of the group known as whitebait, to reintroduce the species to Auckland waterways. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
It's not surprising that books on infant sleep are top moneymakers for publishers - in early infancy, every baby wakes in the night, so every parent will want such books.
Speaking before the meeting, the council chairman said the idea was still in its infancy.
DVDs were still in their infancy and putting a two and a half hour movie on one side of the disc was many months away.
The pictures on the walls were straight; rose drapes that had spent her infancy in the living room hung crisp to dustless sills. BARN BLIND
He notes that while geo-thermal and solar energy is still in its infancy, wind power has made significant strides over the past decade, especially in Europe.
THE FIELD of ultracold quantum gases is no longer in its infancy.
As the child goes through infancy, childhood and puberty, it learns to cathect its body in a particular way - to localize erotic pleasure in certain erogenous zones.
So you went right through infancy thinking this was a kid with reflux, and then discovered three years later that it was a remediable problem?
From earliest infancy children differ in irritability and quickness of temper.
The characteristic ‘organoid’ pattern helps distinguish fibrous hamartoma of infancy from rhabdomyosarcoma and from infantile fibrosarcomas.
You’re honely in the hinfancy of the istoryonic hart you know; your performers never haspirate the haitch in sich vords for instance as hink and hoats, and leave out the w in wice wanity you know; and make nothink of homittin the k in somethink.” Domestic Manners of the Americans
To make matters worse, all four of your children have died in infancy, and you can no longer find in yourself the will to meet your husband's physical needs.
His own acting career began in infancy and he spent much of his childhood touring English provincial theatre towns with his parents. Times, Sunday Times
Genetic engineering is still in its infancy.
DNA analysis in bioarchaeology is still in its infancy, but promises to be a powerful tool for identification of population history.
Job wrote his epic poem in a state of society which we should probably term uncultivated; and when Lamech gave utterance to the most ancient and the saddest of human lyrics, the world was in its infancy, and it would appear as if the first artificer in "brass and iron" had only helped to make homicide more easy. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
This study had been commenced in his own time by de Brosses, the inventor of the term fetishism, and pronounced by competent modern authorities to have been a powerful and original thinker upon the facts of the infancy of civilization. Voltaire
Progress in the understanding of sensory and perceptual processes in early infancy. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
He depicted a version of his scarred but curiously often blissful family life: nine siblings (three of whom died in infancy), a drained and loving mother, and a tortured, violent-tempered father who died when Davies was 6; his burgeoning homosexuality and struggle with his Catholic faith; the solace and rapture that the cinema bestowed on him. Intimate History
The programme is still in its infancy, but already the implementation of smart meters seems rather botched. Times, Sunday Times
A Roman bride put away childish things—her toys and the miniature toga she had worn throughout infancy—and dressed in a straight white woolen dress tunica recta that she had woven herself on a special loom. Caesars’ Wives
Cserni T, Jozsa T, Csizy I, Carr MC, Canning DA, Rushton HG: The danger of intraoperative antegrade cannulation of the ureter in infancy and early childhood. Publications of the Urology Division
Stem-cell research, still in its infancy, could add to demand for donor eggs. Times, Sunday Times
The race has been credited with transforming the motor industry in Britain and revolutionising the motor race, which was then in its infancy.
Plans are in their infancy, but beer lovers are promised a ‘special’ selection of beers, culled from the group's excellent contacts in the trade.
It was an eye opener for me at the time, this kind of kite flying I think was in relative infancy at the time though still quite technically advanced.
No more compulsory vows, no "frocked" younger sons "to make an elder," no girls immured from infancy, kept in the convent throughout their youth, led on, urged, and then driven into a corner and forced into the final engagement on becoming of age; no more aristocratic institutions, no The Modern Regime, Volume 2
a time, though nourished with the same food which increased their growth from infancy, and afterwards supported them for many years in unimpaired health and strength, must be sought for from the laws of animal excitability, which, though at first increased, is afterwards diminished by frequent repetitions of its adapted stimulus, and at length ceases to obey it. Note VII
To die in childhood or infancy is to be deprived of a natural life span; such a death makes one's life a stunted and unshapely affair.
Some have symptoms in infancy or early childhood of urinary tract infection or obstruction.
Red Witch miscellaneous notes on Wiccan 'incunabula': curious and interesting stories from newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books, press photos and postcards and other items relating to influential witches and the infancy of the modern witchcraft movement. Archive 2007-08-01
Hw can he be my last when his infancy is already over? Hello, Goodbye | Her Bad Mother
We suggest that this is further evidence that cardiovascular disease originates through programming in fetal life and infancy.
The pair had both been introduced as substitutes with the game still in its infancy as a result of injuries. Times, Sunday Times
The pair had both been introduced as substitutes with the game still in its infancy as a result of injuries. Times, Sunday Times
Deaths during infancy have fallen dramatically in the last hundred years.
Outcome of syndromic paucity of interlobular bile ducts (Alagille syndrome) with onset of cholestasis in infancy. Alagille Syndrome Related Reading
His own acting career began in infancy and he spent much of his childhood touring English provincial theatre towns with his parents. Times, Sunday Times
The infancy stories in Matthew contain quotations and more indirect allusions to the Moses birth story.
We have already slid into the infancy of theocratic fascism, and my brothers and sisters in Christ don't know they are being used.
Up to 90% of children born with congenital toxoplasmosis have no symptoms early in infancy, but a large percentage will show signs of infection months to years later.
Scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) and the Mahurangi Technical Institute (MTI) have been catching and tagging farmed rare giant kokopu, which in their infancy make up part of the group known as whitebait, to reintroduce the species to Auckland waterways. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
Their first child did not survive infancy.
All the heart disease sufferers had been born small and didn't grow well in infancy.
The study of biologically based gender differences is in the stumbling steps of infancy.
Pleasure boating was still in its infancy, and there was none of the current enthusiasm for leisure. Exploring Britain's Canals
The editions had a profound influence on the development of English choral societies, then in their infancy.
The rite of my infancy was performed as became a soldier's son; my fount was my father's helmet, and the first pap I sucked lay on the point of his sword. The Scottish Chiefs
Also, the franchise was saddled with bad draft picks and even worse trades in its infancy and still hasn't recovered.
The informal network is where ideas in their infancy can be formulated, adapted and gain traction before presented.
The scenes on the south wall concern Christ's infancy, in the upper register the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the Flight into Egypt, and less visibly in the lower register, the Journey of the Magi and the Presentation in the Temple.
Asthma commonly begins early in childhood, even in infancy.
He, with a noble goodness all his own, took infinite delight in bestowing to prodigality the treasures of his mind and fortune on the long-neglected son of his father's friend, the offspring of that gifted being whose excellencies and talents he had heard commemorated from infancy. I.2
This is at its best in infancy and early childhood and is lost, as we get older.
Their gentleness is so absolute, so sweet, that we recognise in it the infancy of that humanity which can remain oppresed by every form of yoke, by every injustice; and the child's love of knowledge is such that it surpasses every The Montessori Method
Two other daughters preceding Dominique died in infancy from a lung disease once common in cesarean births known as hyaline membrane disease. Dominick Dunne on His Daughter's Murder
Here, all there is to see is a competition of boats, manned by England's best youth, upon a noble river, flowing, in Virgilian phrase, "under ancient walls"; a city of romance, given up for a few days to the pleasure of the young, and breathing into that pleasure her own refining, exalting note; a stately ceremony -- the Encaenia -- going back to the infancy of A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting FGM/C is usually carried out between infancy and 15 years of age to keep women "pure," marriageable and unable to enjoy sex. Evelyn Leopold: Female Circumcision -- 90 percent of Childbearing Women in Egypt?
‘George Hudson was ideally suited to running and dominating the railways in their infancy in Britain,’ Robert writes.
The 13-year-old spent many months of infancy in hospital, had breathing and swallowing difficulties and was tube fed. Times, Sunday Times
If ever souls on earth could commune, I was so fascinated by the hallowed spot, which contained all which I so adored from my infancy, my consoler, my counsellor, my guide to the holy hill of God, I really believed I heard her speak when I prayed over her head and again vowed my promises at parting. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
George has a soft fontanelle, a spot on the top of your head that usually closes over with bone during infancy.
Ten years ago the industry was in its infancy and, like most of the internet, largely unpoliced. Times, Sunday Times
Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy. The Scarlet Letter
Although others had done much pioneering work, at the time both electrical pacemaking and modern electronics were in their infancy. Times, Sunday Times
In rural Bangladesh, for example, more girls than boys die during infancy and early childhood.
George has a soft fontanelle, a spot on the top of your head that usually closes over with bone during infancy.
She had served the Queen, as an attendant, a playmate, and a confidante literally since infancy, but did not resent it.
People are open to the greatest health risks during infancy and early childhood, and in Egypt and Nubia there was a high infant mortality rate.
Injury to the brain in infancy or early childhood can also cause cerebral palsy.
In 1976, the preservation of art environments was in its infancy.
This inability often arises from infancy, mental incapacity, or lack of access to counsel.
Acne of infancy occurs in infants between three months and two years of age and there is usually a positive family history; consider comedogenic agents, virilization, and candidiasis.
The town is only in its infancy as a place of public resort, and, therefore, possesses few public buildings deserving of notice, the principal occupation having been to build houses and new streets, for the accommodation of new residents.
From infancy, children are socialized toward family and communal participation.
During infancy, light hits the photoreceptive cells in our retinas for the first time. Times, Sunday Times
Although technically, according to the ages of man as described by Isidore and Avicenna (the two most commonly invoked systems), the term puer denoted a child (ages seven to ten) in the period following and distinct from infancy (birth to ten years), many authors used puer interchangeably with infans. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy. Chapter 16
Whereas WWI happened in the infancy of the airplane when biplanes were the machines of flying combat, WWII was the first war where the evolving plane technology created a full-scale theater of war in the skies above Europe and the Pacific.
His own acting career began in infancy and he spent much of his childhood touring English provincial theatre towns with his parents. Times, Sunday Times
The Hyperinsulinism Center specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of children with hyperinsulinism, also called persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy (PHHI), a disorder that causes low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Endocrinology
Sexual relations have ceased after the death in infancy of their son some years before.
years ago in her white-painted infancy it must have hung presentably on the deck of some luxury liner
Some events may terminate infancy automatically, such as, marriage and employment outside the home.
Or more accurately, I think that's true ONLY because so many boys died in infancy or childhood in 1900. Three P's of Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Furthermore, it would seem that a system such as Arminianism, which suspends salvation on a personal act of rational choice, would logically demand that those dying in infancy must either be given another period of probation after death, in order that their destiny may be fixed, or that they must be annihilated. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
In porcelain and pottery, connoisseurship was in its infancy, as can be seen by publications of the time.
Evaluation of the cost effectiveness of drug treatment is in its infancy, and health economics can inform the debate.
The infancy narratives are complex. Times, Sunday Times
The natural change in sleep length and quality from infancy to old age is a gradual, ongoing process.
To many, the modern rock festival has evolved into a well-oiled commercial machine, far removed from the laissez-faire hippy idealism of its infancy.
The overall prognosis of CMA in infancy is good, with a remission rate of 85 or 90% by 3 years of age (Høst & Halken 1990, Høst 2002), non-IgE-mediated reactions being the quickest to recover (Vanto et al. 2004) …. Archive 2006-03-01
Squat and lean at the same time, asymmetrically limbed, string-muscled as if with lengths of cordage, dirt-caked from infancy save for casual showers, she was as unbeautiful a prototype of woman as he, with a scientist's eye, had ever gazed upon. THE RED ONE
D will be liable where he has used another person to procure the commission of the offence and that person is not guilty of the offence due to, for example, infancy, lack of mens rea or insanity.
With globalisation still in its infancy, the likelihood of such crises recurring is high.
The most remote galaxies now known are the ones whose light now reaching us was emitted when they were in their infancy, some 13 billion years ago.
More than television, in its infancy a socializing machine that involved the whole family, the transistor radio helped define boomers as a separate (even secessionist) generation.
Dunne MJ, Shepherd RM, Cosgrove KE, Macfarlane WM, Lindley KJ, James RF, et al. Persistent hyperinsulinaemic hyperglycaemia of infancy-derived cells; implications for beta-cells that replicate in vitro. Resources for Professionals
The best time to correct it is during infancy or early childhood.
A descent is thereby cast, which takes away the entry of the disseisee; but the alienatimi beisg made by an infant, is voidable by his entry, and if the descent happens daring his infancy, it does not aifect his right of entry. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...
Thirty years ago credit cards were in their infancy.
Methods for assessment of methodological quality by systematic reviews are still in their infancy and there is substantial room for improvement.
Certainly it is a thing may touch a man with a religious wonder, to see how the footsteps of seducement are the very same in divine and human truth; for, as in divine truth man cannot endure to become as a child, so in human, they reputed the attending the inductions (whereof we speak), as if it were a second infancy or childhood. The Advancement of Learning
At the time, one of the biggest income streams in the mental health professions was coming from “recovered memory therapy,” which rested on the nonempirical notion that in a proper therapeutic environment, a person could recover memories of traumatic events that occurred even during early infancy. Parenting by the Book
There has been a lot of confusion about the importance of obesity in infancy as a determinant of obesity later in life.
In its infancy, the process fell from grace because of production problems.
The interrelatedness of language and social understanding becomes more obvious when we look back at early forms of communication in infancy, sometimes referred to as prelinguistic, and clearly before we can properly talk about syntax.
The thymus is a primary lymphoid organ in infancy and early childhood.
Computing science was still in its infancy.
Since infancy, his father scolded him when he didn't stand up for himself and encouraged him to fight back if he was pushed around. Times, Sunday Times
A Freudian might say it stems from infancy, a Marxist might ascribe it to social conditions later on. GRACE
The circumcision of a girl is performed in infancy.
There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy.
Research on cosmeceuticals is in its infancy.
Credit for this stamina goes to the use of an early version of what is now called elastomeric wall coating — a thick, elastic paint — in its infancy in the 1950s, but its use is a perfect example of Wright's continuous search for new methods and materials. Architectural Record: Restoring the Guggenheim
Since infancy, his father scolded him when he didn't stand up for himself and encouraged him to fight back if he was pushed around. Times, Sunday Times
How could they rear me from infancy to think you profanation ? THE THORN BIRDS
John's twin brother died in infancy.
Deaths during infancy have fallen dramatically in the last hundred years.
A genuinely faithful spouse, he appeared devoted to his fifteen children - at least while they were in their infancy.
Back when anime fandom in America was in its infancy, otaku (that is, fanboys - but we say that with only love) leapt at the chance to get any bootleg tapes they could from Japan.
He alternated, with infinite relish, between the extreme phases of his art, -- a delicate Peri and a majestic Colossus, an extensive array of basso rilievo figures, a sublime ideal of manhood and an exquisite image of infancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
Though on many occasions Harvath had been tempted to suggest an alternate two-syllable code name that might more suit the man such as dipshit, dumbass, dumbfuck, or dickhead, he had miraculously managed to keep his mouth shut and thereby had refrained from doing damage to a friendship that was still very much in its infancy. State of the Union
With many university entrepreneurial programmes still in their infancy, Togneri admits that some involve courses that students can opt in or out of, while others are compulsory.
This extemporal comic part seems to have been held essential to dramatic representation, in most countries in Europe, during the infancy of the art. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
Elsewhere, the faculty engaged in a few demonstrations of their own, a favorite being the manipulation of the orbicularis oris muscle to demonstrate how human beings, from infancy through senectitude, perpetuate the universal sign of affection. Body of Knowledge
Other vulnerabilities emerge during infancy or early childhood. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
A Freudian might say it stems from infancy, a Marxist might ascribe it to social conditions later on. GRACE
He remarkable which a infancy of a people which he talked to did not feel which way, as well as which they were in await of Buffalo Rapids as well as its crew, as well as would similar to to see Dave Schwarz stay as manager of a Project. Archive 2009-12-01
The infant salmon remains in fresh water at least one year, generally two years, without growing more than a few inches, and then about May assumes what is called the smolt-dress, that is to say, it loses the dark parr-bands and red spots of infancy and becomes silvery all over. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
I take Heaven to witness, after all my jesting, my heart is innocent, and the sports of my pen just like those of my infancy when I rode cockhorse on a stick. Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Edmond Scherer
The reform process in general is slow, but ongoing and in some sectors at its infancy or even embryonic stage.
Fitzpatrick refers to reports of early ‘velocipedes’ being used for this purpose in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, when the bicycle industry was barely out of its infancy.
And the Freudians, starting out to prove that the experiences of the individual alone cause hysteria, by pushing back the time of those experiences to infancy (and lately to foetal life), have proved the contrary, that is, the inborn nature of the disease. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Norton boasts of her maternal offices in her earliest infancy; and in her education gradatim. Clarissa Harlowe
Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott
The programme is still in its infancy, but already the implementation of smart meters seems rather botched. Times, Sunday Times
In general, I'd like to know about the early childhood, perhaps infancy, of all mathematicians.
Books printed before 1501 are called incunabula; the word is derived from Latin for swaddling clothes and used to indicate that these books are the work of a technology still in its infancy.
Only recently, however, has the behaviour become the subject of scientific study, and research remains in its infancy.
S. Benet was born of the province of Nursia, and was sent to Rome for to study, but in his infancy he left the schools and went into a desert, and his nourice, which tenderly loved him, went alway with him till they came to The Golden Legend, vol. 3
The 13-year-old spent many months of infancy in hospital, had breathing and swallowing difficulties and was tube fed. Times, Sunday Times
On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making The Other Girls
Still in their musical infancy, these guys are prospective heavyweight champions ... no sweat.
He said the building could be paid for by a private finance initiative, but warned plans are complicated and in their infancy.
Genetic engineering is still in its infancy.
The 13-year-old spent many months of infancy in hospital, had breathing and swallowing difficulties and was tube fed. Times, Sunday Times
Researchers know that the first burst of myelination occurs from infancy to the age of 3. Globe and Mail
Yesterday health professionals met in Dublin to examine the importance of iron in infancy and early childhood.
This same decretal of Pope Gregory II., which permits bigamy in certain cases, denies conjugal rights forever to the boys and girls, whom their parents have devoted to the Church in their infancy. A Philosophical Dictionary
Here she reigns supreme, the arbitress of the everlasting weal or woe of untutored infancy. The Christian Home

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