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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The top of anything.

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  • Haeres cuius pater defungitur, si alicuius vult esse reputationis, mandat cognatos, amicos, Relligiosos, et sacerdotes pro posse, qui certo Die conuenientes sub magno Symphoniæ festo, corportant defuncti cadauer, in montis sublime cacumen.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Haeres cuius pater defungitur, si alicuius vult esse reputationis, mandat cognatos, amicos, Relligiosos, et sacerdotes pro posse, qui certo Die conuenientes sub magno Symphoni� festo, corportant defuncti cadauer, in montis sublime cacumen.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Lenz cited _Tr_ II 230 'bellaque pro magno Caesare Caesar obit' for a variant _habet_; Professor Tarrant cites another instance of the corruption at _Met_ I 551-52 'pes modo tam uelox pigris radicibus haeret,/ora cacumen obit'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Magnus, dum patrios portus, dum litora numquam ad visus reditura suos tectumque cacumen nubibus et dubios cernit vanescere montes.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Huc accedit quod omnem potentiam inter expetenda numerandam omniaque expetenda referri ad bonum uelut ad quoddam naturae suae cacumen ostendimus.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Quare in illius summae intellegentiae cacumen, si possumus, erigamur; illic enim ratio uidebit quod in se non potest intueri, id autem est, quonam modo etiam quae certos exitus non habent, certa tamen uideat ac definita praenotio neque id sit opinio sed summae potius scientiae nullis terminis inclusa simplicitas.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • But returning to the Maffia issue: the fact that the Wall Street Maffia lack the cacumen of the Sicilian, does not sgnify they are not Maffia!!

    Articles 2009

  • Nil radicis egent aliae; fummumque putator Haud dubitat terrae referens mandare cacumen.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

  • \ Precibns matutinis rediit mlhi fomnus, quo vidtbéir currm veU fmmm x\ùrétaltHm versus » eujns cacumen occnfabat Arx q$uéiam. x Hémc t» gtejfiu perpaucos reperì homines » luftranséjHe concUvia » vidi Firmm hékim

    Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657

  • Progress in al] the skills of civilization has been steady and gradual (pedetemp - tim, 5.1453); some are still advancing (5. 332-37), but in general they are said to have attained their perfec - tion (summum ... cacumen, 5.1457).

    PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968

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