chorographical love

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  • adjective Pertaining to chorography.

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  • adjective Pertaining to chorography.

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Examples

  • And now, reader, look upon the chorographical map, and how incongruous will this travelling seem!

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • But omitting the triflingness of the dream, we are searching after the chorographical concern: and if there be any truth in the words of R. Judah, that there was a city Orbo by name near Beth-shean, we find the situation of the brook Cherith, -- or, at least, where he thought it ran.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The chorographical maps have placed Bethsaida in Galilee, on the same coast on which Capernaum is also: so also commentators feign to themselves a bay of the sea only coming between these two cities, which was our opinion once also with them: but at last we learned of Josephus, that Bethsaida was in the upper Gaulanitis, (which we observe elsewhere,) on the east coast of the sea of Gennesaret in Perea.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • BRITAIN: _or a chorographical description of the most flourishing

    Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Yet the praises of Idea, his poetic name for the lady of his admiration and love, are written all over the pages of his voluminous lyrical and chorographical and historical poems, and her very name is quaintly revealed to us.

    Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris William Smith 1597

  • Howsoever in undertaking this task, I hope I shall commit no great error or indecorum, if all be considered aright, I can vindicate myself with Georgius Braunus, and Hieronymus Hemingius, those two learned divines; who (to borrow a line or two of mine [166] elder brother) drawn by a natural love, the one of pictures and maps, prospectives and chorographical delights, writ that ample theatre of cities; the other to the study of genealogies, penned theatrum genealogicum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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