Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spread; distended.
- noun Breadth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Poetic Distended.
- noun obsolete Breadth.
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- noun obsolete
breadth
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Examples
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All ears and eyes were distent sic with expectation.
The Biblicals 2007
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Plerique medici uno complexu perstringunt hos duos morbos, quod ex eadem causa oriantur, quodque magnitudine et modo solum distent, et alter gradus ad alterum existat.
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Nam & in Caira, altissima montis cacumina niuibus semper candentia esse perhibentur: & in Beragua quidem similiter, sed 5000 passuum in coelum elata, qu� niuibus nunquam liberentur, cum tamen partibus tantum decem ab 鎞uatore distent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nam & in Caira, altissima montis cacumina niuibus semper candentia esse perhibentur: & in Beragua quidem similiter, sed 5000 passuum in coelum elata, quæ niuibus nunquam liberentur, cum tamen partibus tantum decem ab æquatore distent.
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Luck compares _Met_ XIV 465 'admonitu quamquam luctus renouentur amari' and _Met_ XV 244-45 '_quae_ [_sc_ elementa] _quamquam_ spatio distent, tamen omnia fiunt/ex ipsis'; in the first passage a few manuscripts and in the second the majority offer the indicative.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Deus uero a deo nullo differt, ne uel accidentibus uel substantialibus differentiis in subiecto positis distent.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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* Solet autem etiam quaeri schismatici quid ab haereticis distent, et hoc inveniri quod schismaticos non fides diversa faciat sed communionis disrupta societas.
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It made such a roll of paper that the goldfinch's nest looked as though it were distent with a sort of misshapen ostrich egg.
Aftermath James Lane Allen 1887
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Hero to sale for distent shores, there asisted by that balm time and change, there assuage his grefe.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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