Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of the six orders of the nineteenth class, the Syngenesia, in the Linnean system, in which the flowers are solitary and have united anthers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.
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Examples
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In the face of this attack, Agrippa wrote a defense of Lefèvre, De beatissimae Annae monogamia.
Loss of Faith 2009
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In 1534 Agrippa also published the first edition of his polemic defending Lefèvre against the mendicants of Metz, De beatissimae Annae monogamia/On the Monogamy of St. Anne.
Loss of Faith 2009
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De beatissimae Annae monogamia, ac unico puerperio propositiones abbreviatae et articulatae ¦.
Loss of Faith 2009
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And because, manye olde and aunciente widowes, in these dayes, may not after three or fower mariages be dismaied and terrified from that state, I will recite an Historie, auouched by S. Hierome, in an Epistle _Ad Gerontiam viduam de monogamia_, whom for his holines and vertue, wee ought to beleue.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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"De fuga" come "De monogamia" (in which the wickedness of second marriage is yet more severely censured) and "De jejunio", a defence of the Montanist fasts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Poly-andria, and ever so many more of them, will be up the Camp Hill; and then there will be monogamia, and cryptogamia, and ever so many more games, here, there, and everywhere.
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870
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