Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Former.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Former; late; ex-: applied to a person with reference to an office or a position which he no longer occupies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Former; previous; of times gone by.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Former ,late ;formerly .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Peculiar things have been happening to the thread dedicated to the ci-devant Attorney General, which was opened yesterday, was inaccessible for most of today, reappeared and has now vanished for good.
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J'ignore également si quelqu'un de ceux dont j'ai fait mention ci-devant, auroit composé quelque autre ouvrage sur le même sujet.
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Tall ci-devant Count d'Estaing, anxious to show himself Patriot, cannot escape; nor Bailly, who, when asked If he knows the Accused, answers with a reverent inclination towards her, 'Ah, yes, I know Madame'.
"Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Amelie de Chandour posed as the rival queen of Angouleme; her husband, M. de Chandour, known in the circle as Stanislas, was a ci-devant young man, slim still at five-and-forty, with a countenance like a sieve.
Two Poets 2007
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Tall ci-devant Count d'Estaing, anxious to show himself Patriot, cannot escape; nor Bailly, who, when asked If he knows the Accused, answers with a reverent inclination towards her, 'Ah, yes, I know Madame'.
Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Amelie de Chandour posed as the rival queen of Angouleme; her husband, M. de Chandour, known in the circle as Stanislas, was a ci-devant young man, slim still at five-and-forty, with a countenance like a sieve.
Two Poets 2007
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Serizy, who became through his wife the brother-inlaw of the ci-devant Marquis de Rouvre, made count and chamberlain by the
A Start in Life 2007
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Politically, he protected the ci-devant nobles, and prevented, to the extent of his power, the sale of the lands and property of the emigres; commercially, he furnished the Republican armies with two or three thousand puncheons of white wine, and took his pay in splendid fields belonging to a community of women whose lands had been reserved for the last lot.
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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Very shortly the carriage rolled over the paved road of Tours, over the bridge, along the Grande – Rue, and stopped at last before the old mansion of the ci-devant Marquise de
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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The cooking world was large enough to hold Kitchener and the ci-devant chef to the most Christian King Louis XVI. and the Right Honourable the
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December 13, 2018