Definitions
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- intransitive verb obsolete To yield or give up; to depart.
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- verb obsolete To
yield orgive up ; todepart .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I observe the decalogical precepts, and, according to the facultatule of my vires, I do not discede from them one late unguicule.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I observe the decalogical precepts, and, according to the facultatule of my vires, I do not discede from them one late unguicule.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Above the serpents is the following inscription, in tolerably large white characters: Otiosis locus hic non est, discede morator.
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Strongbeerum! discede a lay-fratre Petro, if lay-brother Peter were so silly as to abuse, or play tricks with, the good gift.
Beer and Cider 1921
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Quid tu cum dominis mox servietis miseri nobis [274]: discede.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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In the cloisters is the motto Disce aut discede, Latin for Learn or depart, and in the quadrangles is the old school bell.
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I observe the decalogical precepts, and, according to the facultatule of my vires, I do not discede from them one late unguicule.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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et tener ausuros grandia frangit Amor. saepe meae tandem dixi discede puellae: 35
Epic and Love Elegy Ovid 1912
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