matres

When these letters were included in writing, they were usually known as matres lectionis or ` mothers of reading, 'because of their function in clarifying the reading process.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4 1976

He ripd a big howle in da buttum uv mah parentz bed, and to it a bocks fing under da matres, an he goez under dere and layz on da fabrick tuff.

wut? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

A most memorable observation, [3656] Scaliger accounts it, et non praetereundum, maximorum virorum plerosque patres ignoratos, matres impudicas fuisse.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

/Plorant matres ut Rachel, nati morti dantur. back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

: "Flebant autem uberrime illi quos patres et matres non sinebant abire." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Pliny, the naturalist, says: “Coccyx ova subdit in nidis alienis; ita plerique alienas uxores faciunt matres” — “the cuckoo deposits its eggs in the nest of other birds; so the Romans not unfrequently made mothers of the wives of their friends.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

“You look pale, child!” cries mamma, anxious, like all pavidae matres.

The Virginians 2006

My solotions for the proper parturience of matres and the edu-cation of micturious mites must stand over from the moment till

Finnegans Wake 2006

Nobilitas virorum est longos habere vngues in digitis, praecipue pollicis quibus circueunt sibi manus: Nobilitas autem et pulchritudo mulierem est pauos habere pedes: Et ideò matres quando filiæ suæ sunt tenellæ ligant pedes earum, et non dimittunt crescere.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

Tunc stant matres iuxta pullos suos et permittunt se pacifice mungi.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004