Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the pupil of the eye.
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Examples
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Item Anoyer called pupilla occult [Pupilla oculi, by J. de Burgo].
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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“Mardumak-i-chashm” (mannikin of the eye); the Greeks and the Latins pupa, pupula, pupilla.
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Thus, a free person only could have occasion for a tutor, or could be a ward (pupillus, pupilla).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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As soon as I observed any intention on their part of making sheep's eyes at me, I would paint them looking in another direction than mine, and then, at the least movement of the pupilla, would say, "I am doing the eyes now."
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Ille enim (etiamdum in pharetra conclufa, quæ pupilla viuacis auicular terebraret, sagitta) ipsam totius Artiseius metam egregia methodo collimauit; expedita vero facilitate patefactam, inter alios amicorum, mihi quoque tradidit; multisq vitro citroq, iaftatis
Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885
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The Teutonic _sehandes ougen_, _pupilla oculi_, is totally distinct; _seha_ being merely _medius punctus oculi_, whence _sehan_,
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They are the apple of his eye, Zech 2: 8, to express how dear they are to him, and how tender he is of them, Nihil carius pupilla oculi [Nothing is dearer than the apple of the eye].
The Ten Commandments 1692
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R. abdomine aurantio caelk» - maculato, 'pupilla triquctra.
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Hadakat) al-Aye "; the Persians" Mardumak-i-chashm "(mannikin of the eye); the Greeks and the Latins pupa, pupula, pupilla.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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c. um Oculis non fieri eregione pupilla:; itavt axis Oculi a me - diQ-pupillac adfundiimdsdu&us-incurrat*in Opticos vfcd po - tius fieri ad-latus, conuerfum. ad Nafum, dcclinatione tani euidenti a fundo Oculi, & ab axc Opticojvt dcbilitatis huma - na: induftrix, ad pauciora, quam par fit, refpicientis ', lucu-r kntum tqftimoiiiumfitjpotuiffeaprofGfroribusAnatoiiiica:,.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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