Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fluent; eloquent; clear in statement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Eloquent.
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- adjective obsolete
eloquent
Etymologies
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Examples
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A similar "disert" or collection of hermit cells was endowed at Cashel in 1101; and a "disert columkill," with two townland mills and a vegetable garden, was endowed at Kells, at a somewhat earlier period, for the use of "devout pilgrims," as those were called who left the society of men to worship God in solitude.
The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847
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Confidint hi nose wut hi lyks afta teh mane corse foar disert !
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Patrick proceeded into Tir-Eoghain of the Islands -- namely, into the territory governed by Fergus -- and he took to build a _disert_ at a certain place; Achadh-Driman was the proper name of the land in which he built it.
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The chariot was attached to the horses; and he sent them on without a man with them until they were in the disert with Mochta.
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Fwhat the hell do ye mane to be so slanderin 'me reputation an' two or three hundred miles av disert between me an 'him?
The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908
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An 'wid me a shwearin' by all the saints I knew that I wud niver set fut on the disert again.
The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908
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"There was a 'disert,'" says Dr. Reeves, "for such men to retire to, besides the monastery of Derry, and another at Iona itself, situate near the shore in the low ground, north of the Cathedral, as may be inferred from Portandisiart, the name of a little bay in this situation."
The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847
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We usually don't have enough disert from Christmas.
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The idiot is going on with his full scale attack on scientific research and critical tought: he succedeed in banning stem cell research asking to disert a popular vote, he is trying to ban legal abortion, he succeeded in banning the "day after" contraceptional pill, and much more.
The daily irrelevant 2008
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The idiot is going on with his full scale attack on scientific research and critical tought: he succedeed in banning stem cell research asking to disert a popular vote, he is trying to ban legal abortion, he succeeded in banning the "day after" contraceptional pill, and much more.
The daily irrelevant 2008
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