Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The so-called occipital operculum of a monkey's brain, which overlaps parts in front of itself and thus forms a supergyre over the pomatic or external occipital fissure.
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Examples
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It's clearly not a major priority but if I can take the T bar or poma up, I usually prefer that.
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Note 57: London, BL Harley 957, fols. 19r — v: "et abiit mulier, et ingressa talamum, tradidit pueris poma, et accedens deosculata est tanto subdolo puerum christianum, dicens, bene venias fili." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Pyra quae grato sunt sapore, cocta mala, poma tosta, et saccliaro, vel anisi semine conspersa, utiliter statim a prandio vel a caena sumi possunt, eo quod ventriculum roborent et vapores caput petentes reprimant.
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Scindunt enim minutatim in scutella cum sale et aqua, aliam enim salsam non faciunt, et tunc cum puncto cultelli vel furcinula, quas proprias faciunt ad hoc, cum qua solemus comedere pira et poma cocta in vino, porrigunt cuilibet circumstantium buccellam vnam vel duas, secundum multitudinem comedentium.
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Joker, offended at this conjunction, echoed, “Who we are!” with great emphasis; and repeating nos poma natamus, asked ironically, to which of the tribes the Jew thought he belonged?
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Nam ibi crescunt altissimi cedri, et arbores poma ferentes, ad capitis quantitatem humani, ex quibus valdè saporosus fit potus.
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Scindunt enim minutatim in scutella cum sale et aqua, aliam enim salsam non faciunt, et tunc cum puncto cultelli vel furcinula, quas proprias faciunt ad hoc, cum qua solemus comedere pira et poma cocta in vino, porrigunt cuilibet circumstantium buccellam vnam vel duas, secundum multitudinem comedentium.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nam ibi crescunt altissimi cedri, et arbores poma ferentes, ad capitis quantitatem humani, ex quibus vald� saporosus fit potus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[4744] The Arm.vers. is here followed; the old Latin reads, "Et reliqua autem poma."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Accordingly, when Tityrus, seeing the lengthening shadows, invites Melibaeus to go home and pass the night with him, he promises him _mild_ apples and soft chestnuts, -- _mitia poma, castaneae molles_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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