Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fit; suitable; convenient; adequate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.
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- adjective
appropriate ;suitable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Three things were required to render man idoneous, or fit unto that life to God for which he was made: -- First,
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And Arminius 'drastic method of questioning and arguing became the idoneous vehicle for Arnold's criticisms on such topics as our Foreign Policy,
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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And Arminius 'drastic method of questioning and arguing became the idoneous vehicle for Arnold's criticisms on such topics as our Foreign Policy, Compulsory Education, the Press, and the
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Informe you, That though they seem to be nothing else but Fluid Salts, yet they abound in Water, as you may Observe, if either you Entangle, and so Fix their Saline Part, by making them Corrode some idoneous
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Queen Whims after this said to her gentlemen: The orifice of the ventricle, that ordinary embassador for the alimentation of all members, whether superior or inferior, importunes us to restore, by the apposition of idoneous sustenance, what was dissipated by the internal calidity's action on the radical humidity.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Queen Whims after this said to her gentlemen: The orifice of the ventricle, that ordinary embassador for the alimentation of all members, whether superior or inferior, importunes us to restore, by the apposition of idoneous sustenance, what was dissipated by the internal calidity’s action on the radical humidity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Queen Whims after this said to her gentlemen: The orifice of the ventricle, that ordinary embassador for the alimentation of all members, whether superior or inferior, importunes us to restore, by the apposition of idoneous sustenance, what was dissipated by the internal calidity’s action on the radical humidity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Destruction of their seminal Virtues;) and that the _Alkahest_ being abstracted from these Liquors in the same weight and Virtue wherewith it Dissolv'd them, the Liquors may by frequent Cohobations from chalke or some other idoneous matter, be Totally depriv'd of their seminal
fbharjo commented on the word idoneous
idoneous - a suitable word
January 13, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word idoneous
"'But tell me, is Martin an idoneous person?'
'Idoneous for what?'
'Oh, just idoneous... This letter says I am required to present an idoneous person.'
'As far as benefices are concerned no one could be more idoneous, fitting or suitable than Martin, since he is an Anglican clergyman.'
'That makes him idoneous, does it? I was not aware.'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 68
March 10, 2008
qms commented on the word idoneous
In hiring be never erroneous;
The new guy could turn out felonious,
So google his name
In search of ill fame
And pray that you find him idoneous.
December 4, 2017