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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of the Latin quorum, of whom or of which.
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Examples
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Pierre Kunstmann, 110: "Ne sout ke faire ne que dire,/Tant ot el quor curuz e ire."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Septebv, ano dni milio CCCC quor.aiab. p. piture Deus.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Nam quor istuc dicis? equidem valeo el salvos sum recte, Amphitruo.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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QVOME tonas, Leucesie, prae tet tremonti. quor libet, Curis, 5 decstumum tonare? iii
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But when I touched it the supposed stone emitted a terrible "quor-r-rr-k," and squattered away.
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Hector --- Do you remember how she splashed into the sea like her master Proteus, _et se jactu dedit quor in altum_? ''
The Antiquary 1845
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Our Allies, our only Alies as the Demi = Crazies pathetically call them, have completed their System by turning all their Churches into, Je ne scais quor and if they should have any government erected among them either by themselves or others, they may substitute Chorus's of Boys and Girls to chant Prayers like the Romans.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1794 1794
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With regard to diet, tea, and likewife all flatulent aliments, are to be avoided; and for drink, water with a little brandy or rum is not only preferable to malt li - quor, but, in moft cafes, alfo to wine.
Every Woman Her Own House-keeper; Or, The Ladies' Library: Containing the ... 1796
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Take of the dried leaves of mallows four ounces.; of dried camomile flowers two ounces; of fweet fennel feeds an ounce: boil them, and drain off the li - quor, then add half a pint of linfeed oil, and four ounces of common fait.
Sporting Magazine 1795
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He fucceeded by letting freih leaves of paftel ferment in a certain quantity of water; taking out the leaves, and pouring folution of cauftic alkali into the li* quor; and afterwards filtering.
Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791
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