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  • noun Plural form of Mathurin.

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Examples

  • There is here an order of priests called the Mathurins, the object of whose institution is, the begging of alms for the redemption of captives.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • There is here an order of priests called the Mathurins, the object of whose institution is, the begging of alms for the redemption of captives.

    The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • That the choice of Congress may be enlarged, as to the instruments they may use for effecting the redemption, I think it my duty to inform them, that there is here an order of priests called the Mathurins, the object of whose institution is to beg alms for the redemption of captives.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • That the choice of Congress may be enlarged, as to the instruments they may use for effecting the redemption, I think it my duty to inform them, that there is here an order of priests called the Mathurins, the object of whose institution is to beg alms for the redemption of captives.

    The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Seven Billiards, Rue des Mathurins – Saint-Jacques, served as rallying points for the students.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • In the Quartier Saint – Jacques, the students swarmed out of their hotels and ascended the Rue Saint – Hyacinthe to the Cafe du Progress, or descended to the Cafe des Sept – Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • About each of the Paris houses suggested she had some objections to make, so that, after fixing successively on a residence belonging to Madame Delannoy (one of his creditor friends) in the Rue Neuve-des Mathurins, on the old mansion opposite his Passy abode once possessed by the Princesse de

    Balzac 2003

  • The best was, that when this cougher, in a full act or assembly held at the Mathurins, had with great confidence required his breeches and sausages, and that they were flatly denied him, because he had them of Gargantua, according to the informations thereupon made, he showed them that this was gratis, and out of his liberality, by which they were not in any sort quit of their promises.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • The best was, that when this cougher, in a full act or assembly held at the Mathurins, had with great confidence required his breeches and sausages, and that they were flatly denied him, because he had them of Gargantua, according to the informations thereupon made, he showed them that this was gratis, and out of his liberality, by which they were not in any sort quit of their promises.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Saints 'Day, Nov. 1, before a large assembly in the Church of the Mathurins.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

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