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  • But that the ird juftice Brereton at the head of eight thoufand inglidi forces having intelligence of it, fopn revented the meafures thofe princes had taken.

    Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786

  • Refrigerator wastes and drip pipes. vided that the soil or waste pipe, undiminished in size, is continued to a point above the roof or revented into the main soil pipe system above the top of the uppermost fixture.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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  • Iain M Banks used this word for the act of loading a stored personality into a new, mindless body that had been purpose grown as a replacement for the original, presumably lost, body.

    July 15, 2011

  • Presumably lost? How careless.

    July 16, 2011