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- noun obsolete The full attention of one's sight, hearing or other senses, as directed towards a particular object.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I do not, however, think that the attacking column was actually wedge-shaped like the “acies cuneata” of the
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Et sicut dictum est suprà de Tartaris, debent acies suas ordinare, ac legem pugnantibus imponere.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Locus ad prælium, si fieri potest, eligendus est planus, vt vndíque possint videre, nec omnes debent in vnum conuenire, sed acies multas et diuisas, nec tamen nimis distantes ab inuicem facere.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Hoc autem acies caueant, ne si etiam illi fugere videantur, diu post illos currant, ne fortè, sicut facere solent, ipsos ad paratas insidias trahent: quia plus fraudulentia quàm fortitudine pugnant.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Habeant et speculatores ex omni parte, qui videant, quando veniunt acies cætere.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Ita tamen quod non possunt intrare inter ipsos et syluam: nec debent simul omnes conuenire in vnum, sed facere acies multas, et diuersas ab inuicem nec tamen multum distantes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Omnes acies hoc debent cauere, ne diu currant post eos, propter insidias quas solent pr鎝arare: plus enim fraudulentia qu鄊 fortitudine pugnant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Hoc autem acies caueant, ne si etiam illi fugere videantur, diu post illos currant, ne fort�, sicut facere solent, ipsos ad paratas insidias trahent: quia plus fraudulentia qu鄊 fortitudine pugnant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Hierosolymam pertendit Illud fuit tempus quo Turci Baldwinum regem apud Ramas obsederunt: qui cum obsidionis iniuriam ferre nequiret, per medias hostium acies effugit, solius Roberti opera liberatus pr鎒untis, et euaginato gladio dextra leuaque Turcos c鎑entis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Ipsi Tartari quiescunt: quia acies diuidunt et vna succedit alteri in pugnam vt non nunium fatigentur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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