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- noun Plural form of
masticator .
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Examples
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This it is, which induces every amphitryon to receive his guests well, and also excites the gratitude of the latter when they see themselves well taken care of: here is the place to reprobate those stupid masticators, who with the most guilty indifference to the greatest luxuries, and who with sacrilegious indifference inhale the odorous perfume of nectar.
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As for you, nobilissim praegustators, and my gentilissim masticators, your frequently experimented industry, internected with perdiligent sedulity and sedulous perdiligence, continually adjuvates you to perficiate all things in so expeditious a manner that there is no necessity of exciting in you a cupidity to consummate them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When her praegustators had tasted the meat, her masticators took it and chewed it most nobly; for their dainty chops and gullets were lined through with crimson satin, with little welts and gold purls, and their teeth were of delicate white ivory.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When her praegustators had tasted the meat, her masticators took it and chewed it most nobly; for their dainty chops and gullets were lined through with crimson satin, with little welts and gold purls, and their teeth were of delicate white ivory.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As for you, nobilissim praegustators, and my gentilissim masticators, your frequently experimented industry, internected with perdiligent sedulity and sedulous perdiligence, continually adjuvates you to perficiate all things in so expeditious a manner that there is no necessity of exciting in you a cupidity to consummate them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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_Hebrew_ servants were robbed of theirs also; a conclusion too stubborn for even pro-slavery masticators, however unscrupulous.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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_Hebrew_ servants were robbed of theirs also; a conclusion too stubborn for even pro-slavery masticators, however unscrupulous.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Nothing of the sort appears to have taken place, the good Doctor contenting himself, as sole revenge for the injury done to his masticators, with expelling the delinquent, who was accompanied from the camp by his countryman and ally, Harry Brown.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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Quirk, however, was not to be put off in this manner; and drawing out his tooth-pick, he began using it among his huge masticators, and continued: --
The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Mary Ashley Townsend 1866
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The novelist always compares the masticators of his heroine to ivory; but I boldly pronounce the teeth of the Typee to be far more beautiful than ivory itself.
Typee Herman Melville 1855
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