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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
rut .
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Examples
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[5822] Cupidinis aestro percita e summo praeceps ruit, hoping thus to ease herself, and to be freed of her love pangs.
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
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Nutritio corporis, via pristina clausa, qua data porta ruit: in membranam pulmonum, minus firmatam facile fertur, et glandulis per sputum rejicitur.
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* Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas: [929] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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This foundation, then, being removed, whatever is built upon it mole ruit suâ.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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= Similar wording at [Sen] _Oct_ 345-48 '[cumba ...] _obruta_ ... ruit in pelagus rursumque salo/pressa _resurgit_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Jerome felt barbarism closing in: _Romanus orbis ruit_, he says, -- the Roman world is tumbling in ruins.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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Audax omnia perpeti, Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen
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The inscription implies that all the world sorrowed at his death: "Orbe dolente Pater ... ruit."
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He instructs him in invention, composition, and especially style, emphasizing particularly the harmony of the verse and defining imitative harmony, examples of which, taken from Virgil, have passed into classical teaching, e.g. "ruit Oceano nox, procumbit-humi bos, conuolsum remis rostrisque stridentibus aequor".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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