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- noun Plural form of
enigma .
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Examples
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And shall I tell you what they now say here of us -- I fear not without some cause -- even as Lipsius wrote of the French, 'De Gallis quidem enigmata veniunt, non veniunt, volunt, holunt, audent, timent, omnia, ancipiti metu, suspensa et suspecta.'
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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And shall I tell you what they now say here of us -- I fear not without some cause -- even as Lipsius wrote of the French, 'De Gallis quidem enigmata veniunt, non veniunt, volunt, holunt, audent, timent, omnia, ancipiti metu, suspensa et suspecta.'
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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And shall I tell you what they now say here of us -- I fear not without some cause -- even as Lipsius wrote of the French, 'De Gallis quidem enigmata veniunt, non veniunt, volunt, holunt, audent, timent, omnia, ancipiti metu, suspensa et suspecta.'
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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And shall I tell you what they now say here of us -- I fear not without some cause -- even as Lipsius wrote of the French, 'De Gallis quidem enigmata veniunt, non veniunt, volunt, holunt, audent, timent, omnia, ancipiti metu, suspensa et suspecta.'
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586b John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster of the parish of Gandercleuch; no conjuror, and neither reader of riddles, nor expounder of enigmata.”
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_Davus sum, non Oedipus_ -- I am Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster of the parish of Gandercleuch; no conjuror, and neither reader of riddles, nor expounder of enigmata. "
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
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