Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
dorsum .
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Examples
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Nam aliqui victi vltrà modum diabolica deuotione proijciunt se sub rotis currus præcedentis, vt frangantur sibi crura, brachia, latera, dorsa, nec non et colla in reuerentiam Dei sui (vt dicunt) a quo remunerationem sperant, venire ad Paradisum terrestrem.
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Interdum quoque sensimus tanquam graues baculorum ictus, per humeros, dorsa, latera, et ad renes, alij quidem grauiores, alij vt puta secundum demeritum vniuscuiusque.
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Isti habent boues fortissimos habentes caudas plenas pilis sicut equi, et ventres pilosos et dorsa.
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Fit aliquando, vt nautæ in dorsa cetorum, quæ Insulas esse putant, anchoras figentes. sæpe periclitentur, vocantur autem eorum lingua
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Isti habent boues fortissimos habentes caudas plenas pilis sicut equi, et ventres pilosos et dorsa.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The dip is about 45 degrees; the upper parts of the dorsa are scatters of white on brown-yellow stone; and below it, where the surface has given way, appear mauve-coloured strata, as if stained by manganese.
The Land of Midian 2003
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Nam aliqui victi vltr� modum diabolica deuotione proijciunt se sub rotis currus pr鎐edentis, vt frangantur sibi crura, brachia, latera, dorsa, nec non et colla in reuerentiam Dei sui (vt dicunt) a quo remunerationem sperant, venire ad Paradisum terrestrem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Looking eastward the land smoothens, the dorsa fall more gently towards the counter-slope, and there are none of the “Morros” which we have traversed.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Interdum quoque sensimus tanquam graues baculorum ictus, per humeros, dorsa, latera, et ad renes, alij quidem grauiores, alij vt puta secundum demeritum vniuscuiusque.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Fit aliquando, vt naut� in dorsa cetorum, qu� Insulas esse putant, anchoras figentes. s鎝e periclitentur, vocantur autem eorum lingua
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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