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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of membrum.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Divani concessi alle membra dei passeggeri, probabilmente in momenti della giornata in cui erano [...]

    Ikea Organizes Furniture Swap 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Arbor decora et fulgida, ornata regis purpura, electa, digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere!

    Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008

  • 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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