Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pyramid. Formerly also
piramis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pyramid.
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- noun obsolete A
pyramid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quid? quod illa Teneriffæ (quæ vna, est ex insulis Canarijs, quæ & fortunatæ) pyramis, secundum Munsterum, 8 aut 9 milliarium
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Besides, he deliuereth vnto him a couering of greene veluet made in maner of a pyramis, about nine palmes high, and artificially wrought with most fine golde, and this is to couer the tombe of their prophet within Medina, which tombe is built in manner of a pyramis: and besides that couering there are brought many others of golde and silke, for the ornament of the sayde tombe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Moreouer, ouer the body they haue built a tombe of speckled stone a brace and a halfe high, [Marginal note: Or, a fathom.] and ouer the same another of Legmame fouresquare in maner of a pyramis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quid? quod illa Teneriff� (qu� vna, est ex insulis Canarijs, qu� & fortunat�) pyramis, secundum Munsterum, 8 aut 9 milliarium
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The anterior district (Fig. 679) is named the pyramid (pyramis medullæ oblongatæ) and lies between the anterior median fissure and the antero-lateral sulcus.
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The Greek must have thought that this was the name of the whole structure and giving it a Greek ending he called it a "pyramis."
Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913
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Leland speaks of it as "a notable and strong square tower for great belles, and a pyramis on it, in the cemiterie."
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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Thus of Greek words we have the following: ‘pyramis’ and ‘pyramides’, forms often employed by
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Quid? quod illa Teneriffæ (quæ vna, est ex insulis Canarijs, quæ & fortunatæ) pyramis, secundum Munsterum, 8 aut 9 milliarium Germanicorum altitudine in aëra assurgens, atque instar Ætnæ iugiter conflagrans, niues, quibus media cingitur, teste Benzone Italo,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Suntque omnes fub eadem altitudine inter, fe'icaque erunc vt bafes. hoc eft pyramis ABFD eft ad pyramidem ABEF. vt bafis BFD ad bafim BEF, & fie deinceps in infinicum.
Ismaelis Bullialdi Exercitationes geometricae tres ...: astronomiae ... Ismael Boulliau 1657
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