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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of auris, 1.

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  • Note 37: "Siquidem quamuis beata illa soror in silencii observacione sollicita fuerit nimis, nunquam transgrediens et infringend legem silencii in vita sua, tamen cum graciam illuminantem se minus solito se habere conspexit, strictissimum sibi ipsi silencium indixit, tanquam os ad loquendum ey aures ad audiendum non haberet; ..."

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Laguens animus inde erigitur et reviviscit, nec tam aures afficit, sed et sonitu per arterias undique diffuso, spiritus tum vitales tum animales excitat, mentem reddens aeilem, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nostrae salutis avidus continenter aures vellicat, ac calamitate subinde nos exercet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Elegantissima res est, quae et mentem acuit, corpus exerceat, et spectantes oblectet, multos gestus decoros docens, oculos, aures, animum ex aeque demulcens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cura a venae sectione per aures, unde semper steriles.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ad horam somni aures suavibus cantibus et sonis delinire.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Canicularis terras excoquit, et siccat flumina, ipse securus sedet sub arborea fronde, et ad doloris sui solatium, naribus suis gramineas redolet species, pascit oculos herbarum amiena viriditas, aures suavi modulamine demulcet pictarum concentus avium, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Strepunt aures clamoribus plorantium sociorum, saepius nos quam deorum invocantium opem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Clamore vestium ad se juvenes vocat; capilli fasciolis comprimuntur crispati, cingulo pectus arctatur, capilii vel in frontem, vel in aures defluunt: palliolum interdum cadit, ut nudet humeros, et quasi videri noluerit, festinans celat, quod volens detexerit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quoties de amatoriis mentio facta est, tam vehementer excandui; tam severa tristitia violari aures meas obsceno sermone nolui, ut me tanquam unam ex Philosophis intuerentur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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