Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old Saxon law, a member of the third order in the nation, the first being the nobilis, and the second the ingenuus, corresponding to the eorl, the ceorl, and the læt of the Kentish laws.
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No, litus, the deal is that we all have minds, unlike the sort of troll who accuses his readers of having closed minds before even making his points.
Think Progress » EMBARGOED TEXT: Bush’s Prime Time Speech on Iraq 2005
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Sequitur versus Septemtrionem juxta litus maris Rubri Ajan regio, cujus partes duo regna
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"Our translators have inaccurately rendered it meadow, (ver. 2,) the aquatic plants of the Nile, particularly those of the litus kind, were so valuable in Egypt, that they were reaped in as regular a harvest as the flax and corn."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Quod benedicendo benedicam tibi, et multplicando multplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas coeli, et sicut arenam, quae est juxta litus maris: et haereditabit semen tuum portam inimicorum suorum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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RESPONDET = introduces the agricultural image of 18 'sed siccum sterili uomere litus aro', for the word here means 'yield'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_Sterili_ is transferred by hypallage from _litus_; _siccum_ serves no purpose beyond providing a balancing epithet.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Pieriosque dies et habentis carmina somnos. litus utrumque domi, nec te mitissimus amnis diuidit. alternas seruant praetoria ripas, 25 non externa sibi fluuiumue obstare queruntur.
A Villa at Tibur 1912
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Comi moenia Lariumque litus. nam quasdam uolo cogitationes5 amici accipiat sui meique, quare si sapiet uiam uorabit, quamuis candida milies puella euntem reuocet, manusque collo ambas iniciens roget morari.
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FVRI et Aureli, comites Catulli, siue in extremos penetrabit Indos, litus ut longe resonante Eoa
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Hic ille est qui quindecim abhinc annos in litus Labradorium profectus est, ut solivagis in mari Boreali piscatoribus ope medica succurreret; quo in munere obeundo Oceani pericula, quæ ibi formidosissima sunt, contempsit dum miseris et mærentibus solatium ac lumen afferret.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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