Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A superfamily group, by Newton made an order, of recently extinct gigantic ratite birds of New Zealand, containing the two families Dinornithidœ and Palapterygidœ. Dinornithes is a synonym.
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Examples
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Semotis a viris servant in interioribus, ab eorum conspectu immanes.
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Iuxta hos montes (tres pr鎑ictos Heclam, &c.) sunt tres hiatus immanes, quorum altitudinem apud montem Heclam potissimum, ne Lynceus quidem perspicere queat: Sed apparent ipsum inspicientibus, homines prim鵰 submersi, adhuc spiritum exhalantes, qui amicis suis, vt ad propria redeant, hortantibus, magnis suspirijs se ad montem Heclam proficisci debere respondent: Sicque subit� euanescunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Iuxta hos montes (tres prædictos Heclam, &c.) sunt tres hiatus immanes, quorum altitudinem apud montem Heclam potissimum, ne Lynceus quidem perspicere queat: Sed apparent ipsum inspicientibus, homines primùm submersi, adhuc spiritum exhalantes, qui amicis suis, vt ad propria redeant, hortantibus, magnis suspirijs se ad montem Heclam proficisci debere respondent: Sicque subitò euanescunt.
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Tam barbaros, tam immanes fuisse homines, ut parricidium suum, id est tetrum atque execrabib humano generi facinus, sacrificium vocarent.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Iuxta hos montes (tres prædictos Heclam, &c.) sunt tres hiatus immanes, quorum altitudinem apud montem Heclam potissimum, ne Lynceus quidem perspicere queat: Sed apparent ipsum inspicientibus, homines primùm submersi, adhuc spiritum exhalantes, qui amicis suis, vt ad propria redeant, hortantibus, magnis suspirijs se ad montem Heclam proficisci debere respondent: Sicque subitò euanescunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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'VOmnemque dono dedi. nVixi & in fovea immanes inter feras.
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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[Footnote 177: "Pingues tauri cornupetæ, seu vrsi immanes, cum obiectis depugnant canibus."] [Illustration: THE BANKSIDE
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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