Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A key; specifically, a key to or an aid to the understanding of something difficult, as a cipher, or the study of a foreign or classic author in his own language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A key; a glossary.
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- noun archaeology A
Roman key . - noun A device for
restraint of thehands . - noun A
glossary . - noun biology A
key ; anidentification guide; a series oflogically organized groups ofdiscriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify ataxon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.
September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008
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After his election Gregory X set out some hard-line regulations for future elections: his 1274 constitution Ubi periculum contains the first use of the word conclave—from the Latin cum clavis, “with a key.”
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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Mater sanitatis, clavis coelorum, ala animae quae leves pennas producat, ut in sublime ferat; currus spiritus sancti, vexilium fidei, porta paradisi, vita angelorum, &c.
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COOPER: They'll go into what's called the conclave, from the Latin cum clavis (ph), with key.
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-- Native to the Molucca Islands, and so called from resemblance to a nail (_clavis_).
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Subclavian Vein (Lat. _sub_, under, and _clavis_, a key).
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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"Si clavem potestatis non præcedat clavis discretionis."
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The metrical clavis scans all the difficult lines contained in the book, and the general index clearly and briefly elucidates all the references which the poem contains to men, incidents, and localities.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various
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Etymologically the word indicates a self-closing vessel ([Greek: autos], self, and _clavis_, key, or _clavus_, nail), in which the tightness of the joints is maintained by the internal pressure, but this characteristic is frequently wanting in the actual apparatus to which the name is applied.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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