Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
longus .
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Examples
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Pedunculi communes 5 – 10 cent. longi, patentes, alterni, griseo-tomentosi.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Most of the work done here was, it seemed, positional astronomy'the dull but essential business of finding longi - tudes and latitudes, providing time signals and linking radio fixes with the main Martian grid.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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_Maximus vero studiorum fructus est, et velut præmium quoddam amplissimum longi laboris, ex tempore dicendi facultas.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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_Abdomen_ longi-subfusiforme; segmentum primum gibbosum.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Long and steady, steady and longi Then, even though shot or torn, those wounds got in hot blood-in blood he'd helped stir-would feel less pain.
The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949
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Each of the four lower muscles divides into two fasciculi, one of which is inserted as above described; the other passes down to the second rib below its origin (Levatores costarum longi).
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The long ciliary nerves (nn. ciliares longi), two or three in number, are given off from the nasociliary, as it crosses the optic nerve.
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Francesca (v. 790): sic fata relictis exsiluit stratis amens tormentaque nulla vult differre mora. non maesti pectora Magni sustinet amplexu dulci, non colla tenere, extremusque perit tam longi fructus amoris, praecipitantque sues luctus, neuterque recedens sustinuit dixisse 'vale', vitamque per omnem nulla fuit tarn maesta dies; nam cetera damna durata iam mente malis firmaque tulerunt.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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To supply these defects there was provided under the empire, in favour of foreigners and of possessors of provincial land during a defined time, a written formula of defence or exception, otherwise called a prœscriptio, the longi temporis or longœ possessionis prœscriptio.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Quapropter non patimur, nos in controversiis religionis vel fidei causis urgeri nudis Patrum sententiis aut conciliorum determinationibus, multo minus receptis consuetudinibus, aut etiam multitudine idem sentientium, aut longi temporis praescriptione.
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