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Examples
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The striped legless lizard (Delma impar), which is considered vulnerable, is also found in forests and woodlands in the extreme southeast.
Naracoorte woodlands 2008
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If he be a soldier, and so applauded, his valour extolled, though it be impar congressus, as that of Troilus and
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Reptiles of the Southeast Australia Temperate Forests include the striped legless lizard (Delma impar) and the pink-tailed worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella).
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Prussia to be nec pluribus impar; but still, when the plures amount to a certain degree of plurality, courage and abilities must yield at last.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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If you play good enough, the Oracle may appear and impar some of its wisdom.
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By the time he reached the Sixth Form, Peter had contrived to become the fashion-athlete, scholar, arbiter elegantiarum — nec pluribus impar.
Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988
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The same use of _carpere_ at ix 121-22 'fortuna est impar animo, talique libenter/exiguas _carpo_ munere pauper opes' and _Am_ I viii 91 'et soror et mater, nutrix quoque _carpat_ amantem'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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For _impar_ used of elegiac verse, compare Hor _AP_ 75 (the earliest instance) 'uersibus _impariter_ iunctis', _Am_ II xvii 21, _Am_ III i
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Sed Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat, natura ferox et jam ante ignobilitatem Jugurthae, quia materno genere impar erat, despiciens, dextera Adherbalem assedit, [65] ne medius ex tribus, quod apud Numidas honori ducitur, Jugurtha foret.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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He was small-minded enough to think that a subject overshadowed him, _nec pluribus impar_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
biocon commented on the word impar
Impar means 1. of a number: uneven; odd; 2. unequal; unequally matched (Oxford English Dictionary).
November 21, 2011