Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small bulbous garden-plant, Allium Schœnoprasum, of the same genus as the leek and onion, cultivated as a pot-herb. Also chive, chire-garlic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Same as chive.

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  • noun perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning

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  • Is it that I am so weak as to believe, like a child, that I come here in that dress to rec – cive that boy only to decide a little bet, a wager?

    Bleak House 2007

  • Usually shorter grains will cive you a creamier pudding.

    Rice Pudding (with uncooked rice) | Baking Bites 2005

  • Hobbes treated despotic government in The Ele - ments of Law (first version, 1640), in De cive (1642), and in the Leviathan (1651), but he did not adopt

    DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

  • Analogous ideas were expressed by Matteo Palmieri in his work Della vita civile (ca. 1440) and Bartolommeo de 'Sacchi in De optimo cive.

    RENAISSANCE HUMANISM NICOLA ABBAGNANO 1968

  • Leviathan was an artificial contrivance constructed to satisfy the requirements of the component elements of society — “men as if but even now sprung out of the earth, and suddenly, like mushrooms, come to full maturity, without all kind of engagement to each other” (De cive [1642], VIII, 1).

    TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM STEVEN LUKES 1968

  • Latin treatise, De cive, he repeated the distinction between states originating in dominium paternum et despoticum, which he called naturale, and another type of dominium established by institution, called politicum created by artifice.

    DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

  • His De cive contains a sharp criticism of Aristotle's idea of man as a social creature.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968

  • Hobbes treated despotic government in The Ele - ments of Law (first version, 1640), in De cive (1642), and in the Leviathan (1651), but he did not adopt

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • Latin treatise, De cive, he repeated the distinction between states originating in dominium paternum et despoticum, which he called naturale, and another type of dominium established by institution, called politicum created by artifice.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • Nam esse pro cive qui civis non sit rectum est non licere; quam legem tulerunt sapientissimi consules Crassus et Scaevola (95 B.C.); usu vero urbis prohibere peregrinos sane inhumanum est.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

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