Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Down; downward; hence, below; beneath: opposed to sursum.
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Examples
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Etenim hoc quod imputant nobis qui sunt a Valentino, in ea quae deorsum Ebdomade dicentes nos remanere, quasi non adtollentes in altum mentem neque quae sursum sunt sentientes, quoniam portentiloquium ipsorum non recipimus, hoc idem ipsum qui a Basilide sunt his imputant.
The Gnostic shuffle ... Frank Wilson 2006
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Delectatus lusis catulorum, porcellorum, ut perdices inter se pugnarent, aut ut aves parvulae sursum et deorsum volitarent, his maxime delectatus, ut solitu dines publicas sublevaret.
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Natural love or hatred, is that sympathy or antipathy which is to be seen in animate and inanimate creatures, in the four elements, metals, stones, gravia tendunt deorsum, as a stone to his centre, fire upward, and rivers to the sea.
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Tragelapho similes vel centauris, sursum homines, deorsum equi.
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Instat in matrice, quod sursum et deorsum ad odoris sensum praecipitatur.
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Ipsi incipiunt scribere sursum, et ducunt lineam deorsum, et, eodem modo ipsi legunt et multiplicant lineas a sinistra ad dextram.
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Quo facto, flexit vnusquisque nostrum quater genu sinistrum, et monuerunt, ne tangeremus limen deorsum.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Alij verò tam fratres sui et filij, quàm alij maiores inferiùs sedent in medio super bancum, et homines cæteri post eos in terra deorsum, sed viri à dextris, et foeminæ à sinistris.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Alij ver� tam fratres sui et filij, qu鄊 alij maiores inferi鵶 sedent in medio super bancum, et homines c鎡eri post eos in terra deorsum, sed viri � dextris, et foemin� � sinistris.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A supremo vsque deorsum sunt sciss�, quia ante pectus dupticantur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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