استمات

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استماتX [He sought death: &c.: see مُسْتَمِيتٌ].
2 إِسْتَمِيتُوا صَيْدَكُمْ, and دَابَّتَكُمْ, Wait until ye ascertain that your game, and your beast of carriage, has died.
3 استمات [properly, He sought, or courted, death;] i. q. استقتل; (S, K; in art. قتل;) meaning he cared not for death, by reason of his courage. (JM, in art. قتل.)
4 استمات He was pleased with death; content to die.
5 استمات He tried every way, or did his utmost, in seeking a thing.
6 استمات, Verbal.Noun إِستِمَاتٌ, (occurring thus with the final ة elided, He became fat after having been emaciated,
7 استمات It became relaxed, loose, or flabby.
8 استمات لِينًا It attained the utmost degree of softness: said of a fine skin, that is likened to the thin pellicle that adheres to the white of an egg: and of other things, as also استمات فِى اللِّينِ: and in like manner, فِى الصَّلَابَةِ, in hardness. See مُسْتَمِيتٌ
9 And see 1.

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