Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a spire.
- In conchology, having a spire, as a univalve shell; spiriferous; turreted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a spire; being in the form of a spire.
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- adjective having a
spire
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Examples
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In a famous series of lectures at Oxford some years ago, General Wavell stressed the factor that, a quite ordinary man on joining a famous regiment, was nearly always in spired to a higher degree of courage in action.
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Then head two blocks to Holabird & Roche's surprising Chicago Temple , basically a 1920s skyscraper topped by a spired church 77 W.
Chicago Jeff Chu 2011
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If it were otherwise, I would undoubtedly now be zipping through fabulous spired cities with a jetpack on my back (as I was assured would happen in my distant youth).
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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If it were otherwise, I would undoubtedly now be zipping through fabulous spired cities with a jetpack on my back (as I was assured would happen in my distant youth).
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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Tarantia, many-spired capitol of the Hyborian kingdom of Aquilonia lay to the north, Messantia; rough-hewn capitol of Argos lay to the south.
Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009
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If it were otherwise, I would undoubtedly now be zipping through fabulous spired cities with a jetpack on my back (as I was assured would happen in my distant youth).
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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If it were otherwise, I would undoubtedly now be zipping through fabulous spired cities with a jetpack on my back (as I was assured would happen in my distant youth).
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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Tarantia, many-spired capitol of the Hyborian kingdom of Aquilonia lay to the north, Messantia; rough-hewn capitol of Argos lay to the south.
Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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Suki Palacios has come a long way to this spired hotel in the tropics, to this wedge of forgotten land between continents, to this place of hurricanes and violence and calculated erasures.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing had tran - spired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady.
Sole Music 2010
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