Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small trumpet.
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Examples
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"Justitia non fit, coelum vero ruet," suggested Giovanni, in parody of the proverb.
Saracinesca 1881
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Anglicana quæ superioribus diebus vitâ famâ et compositis moribus floruisse dignoscitur nostris temporibus quod Deus avertat, præcipitanter ruet_;
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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_ruet_ (_will_ fall) would now correctly describe what, at so small a distance from the days of Luther and Calvin, may be supposed to have been the feeling among the Polish Unitarians; whereas Dr. Pusey's _jacet_ (lies low, in the _present_ tense) does as certainly partake somewhat of the grandiloquent.
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