Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun State; condition.
- noun A way; a passage: usually in the plural: applied to the various passages, turnings, etc., of a house, garden, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The inward part of a building; the interior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic or obsolete The indoor
layout or plan of acastle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Staying with our theme of love letters from great men and women, I want you to have “… à aultre ne veulx estre” Eng: to anyone else I do not want to belong, which I believe to be by Marguerite of Navarre.
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Henri IV wrote, “un Roy pour estre grand ne doit ignorer rien; to be great, a king should not ignore the smallest thing.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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See also: Aultre ne veulx estre No desire to be otherwise, quotation from Félicien Rops.
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See also: Aultre ne veulx estre No desire to be otherwise, quotation from Félicien Rops.
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Henri IV wrote, “un Roy pour estre grand ne doit ignorer rien; to be great, a king should not ignore the smallest thing.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Staying with our theme of love letters from great men and women, I want you to have “… à aultre ne veulx estre” Eng: to anyone else I do not want to belong, which I believe to be by Marguerite of Navarre.
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En cette condition de nature, de quoy je parle, il y a quant et quant aussi cela, qu'elle demande à estre non pas esbranlée et piquée par ces passions fortes, comme la colere de Cassius car ce mouvement seroit trop aspre, elle veut estre non pas secouée, mais solicitée; elle veut estre eschaufée et reveillée par les occasions estrangeres, presentes et fortuites.
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-- French Tr. [28] Ils n'ont nulle maxime plus agreable ques ceste -- ci, que la foy doit estre libre, et que les esprits ne doyvent point estre tenus captifs.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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* Ils n'ont nulle maxime plus agreable ques ceste -- ci, que la foy doit estre libre, et que les esprits ne doyvent point estre tenus captifs.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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'The first clear word is sorrow, but the rest of the line is lost, unless it ends in estre.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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