aris

Winter said he was betting against Eric in aris . . .

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

Winter said he was betting against Eric in aris . . .

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

Inscribed underneath were the words Agripp(ina) Aug(usta) divi Claud(ii) Neronis Caes(aris) mater, “Agrippina Augusta, mother of the divine Claudius Nero Caesar.”

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

The genius's drive to create prolifically may be biological, Gardner suggests, "aris [ing] from a temperament that seeks arousal."

The Puzzle Of Genius 2008

Does the life coaching come with a free kick up the aris?

Ms R's new look dictatorship Ms Robinson 2008

Rome, fought at that time pro aris et focis, for their hearths and altars.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Thus it is that the weakness of our intellect and the perversity of our will lend each other mutual support; and that, generally, a disputant fights not for truth, but for his proposition, as though it were a battle pro aris et focis.

The Art of Controversy 2004

He was a tall, lean, aris-tocralic Naval Academy graduate whose talent lay more in establishing himself as Ie grand phoque at the poolside cocktail bar at the cercle sportif than playing full-contact mud-sucking with the Khmer Rouge.

Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

Falstaff's discourse on honor in I Henry IV is a paradoxical redefinition of an aris - tocratic value long unquestioned but, after the decline of active feudalism, a topic for the anti-idealist para - doxists of the Renaissance.

LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

This apocalyptic program involved a reformation of the sacerdotal aris - tocracy that controlled the cultus of the Temple at

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDON 1968