Adverb

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(aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.

* Francis Bacon

It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.

* , chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

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Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

(degree) To an even greater degree.

("still" and "taller" can easily swap places here)

* Shakespeare

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

(conjunctive) Nevertheless.

* Moore

As sunshine, broken in the rill, / Though turned astray, is sunshine still .

(archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.

* 1609 (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida 5.2.201-202:

Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.

* Addison

The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.

* Boyle

Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.

(extensive) .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}