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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
membrum .
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Examples
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Notwithstanding, only think what a 'Life and Adventures,' while I am in full scandal, would be worth, together with the 'membra' of my writing-desk, the sixteen beginnings of poems never to be finished!
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Divani concessi alle membra dei passeggeri, probabilmente in momenti della giornata in cui erano [...]
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Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera, et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas, ut superni membra Regis miti tendas stipite.
Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009
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Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera, et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas, ut superni membra Regis miti tendas stipite.
Sing, my tongue bls 2009
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Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera, et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas, ut superni membra Regis miti tendas stipite.
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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Arbor decora et fulgida, ornata regis purpura, electa, digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere!
September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008
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The boudoir in question was “nothing but the disjecta membra of a once important bank account,” he wrote; “it reeks money, it exudes costliness—very likely the chairs are stuffed with curled coupons—but to an art-loving mind it is a dreary, poverty-smitten waste.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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The boudoir in question was “nothing but the disjecta membra of a once important bank account,” he wrote; “it reeks money, it exudes costliness—very likely the chairs are stuffed with curled coupons—but to an art-loving mind it is a dreary, poverty-smitten waste.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Arbor decora et fulgida, ornata regis purpura, electa, digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere!
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera, et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas, ut superni membra Regis miti tendas stipite.
September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008
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