Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Books, coins, objects of art, and the like, which are rather rare, or unusually rare.
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- noun (plural) rare collector's items
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Examples
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There was a gentleman in Philadelphia who was a scholar, and who having lived long abroad, had accumulated a very curious black-letter and _rariora_ library.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Vulnerably cunningly he imperceptibly artificially did any bad credit mortgage refinance loan or ally with us, the matchboard that he so lengthily azadirachta his pelt to banister to the rariora was earlier polydactyl.
Rational Review 2009
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Tertia exhibebit Alphabeticum ad rariora et difficiliora Inscriptionum Commentarium; variosque, secundum methodum Sckligeranam et Reinesianam, Indices.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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Bacch.. io35. etc; rariora apud Sophoclepi, vt Oed.
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Testacea minuia rariora nuperrime detecta in Arena Lit tor is Sandvicensis* Lond»
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Ex omnibus itaque numifmatographorum operibus, quae aut ipfi in icriniis noftris feruamus, aut a ViRIS de antiqui - tate bene raeritis mutua accepimus ac diligentiflime peruoluimus, xuiuis numifmati in Lexico noftro eo - rum adfcribere adnotationes eo magis neceflarium fuit vifum, quo infrequentius voluminofa ifta, hinc indc rariora, plerumque pretiofeoperain bibliothecis etiam inftru£killimis reperiri folent, quae a priuati? propter anguftiorem rem domefticam vix comparari pofliint.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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J79 G. Pvinl Hiftoria Numifmatum, 1683.h. b. j8o Maxima Numfsnnata rariora ex Biblioth.
Bibliotheca Alpheniana, sive, Catalogus librorum, in omni scientiarum genere & variis linguis ... 1779
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_rariora_ in literature or in china, or talk cookery and wines over-much, without showing themselves prigs.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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_rariora_, _curiosa_, and singular marvels of literature than any body I ever knew except Octave Delepierre, with whose works he first made me acquainted.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Humollerili atra provenit, terra mufcis iDpri - mis communi: facpe a ramentis putridis inafcitur, ut aqua limpida a radicibus montium (tillanti hu - meftetur: ideoque radicibus pluribus non opus ha - bet, ibidem inter Brya & Mnia rariora deledatur.
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788
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