Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pollette .
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Examples
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Nunc opus, Aonidum comites tripodumque ministri, diuersis certare modis: eat enthea uittis atque hederis redimita cohors, ut pollet ouanti quisque lyra. sed praecipui qui nobile gressu250 extremo fraudatis opus, date carmina festis digna toris. hunc ipse Coo plaudente Philetas
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I. Christianae religionis reuerentiam plures usurpant, sed ea fides pollet maxime ac solitarie quae cum propter uniuersalium praecepta regularum, quibus eiusdem religionis intellegatur auctoritas, tum propterea, quod eius cultus per omnes paene mundi terminos emanauit, catholica uel uniuersalis uocatur.
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[41] Tomasinus writes that the Rector should be "Virum illustrem, providum, eloquentem ac divitem, quique eo pollet rerum usu ut Gymnasi decora ipsius gubernatione et splendore augeantur."
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Atque ita mentitur sic veris falsa remittet tantum series juncturaque pollet
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Chamæleonis enim nigri radix ea virtute pollet, ut cuti applicata ipsam adeo inflammet, ut nec squillæ, nec urticæ ullæ centesima parte ita adurent: At prurigo non adeo celeriter sese prodit.
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Credit: Cedric Pollet, from the book "Bark"/cedric-pollet.com
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Credit: Cedric Pollet, from the book "Bark"/cedric-pollet.com
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Hoc autem multum tem - poris & laboris requireret, inque una epiftola comprehendi non pollet.
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Saepe dicere solitus sum, etiamsi me diabolum vocaret, me tamen hoc illi honoris habiturum, ut insignem Dei servum agnoscam, qui tamen, ut pollet eximiis virtutibus, ita magnis vitiis laboret_. "
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Opes (says Ovid) irritamenta malorum, (riches are the incentive to every kind of wickedness,) which is corroborated by the old Italian proverb dove l'oro parla, ogni lingua tace, and the latin maxim auro loqueote nihil pollet quoevis atio, (the substance of both of which is gold silences reason.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
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