Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
steam .
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Examples
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How my poor sisters did laugh one Christmas when I got a letter from him in Italy, saying, 'The cole here is intense; but I have got a projick in my head, which is to get back to England as fast as rale and steme can possibly carry me'!
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She was hear thorowly searcht from steme to sterne, some leaks were found & mended, and now it was conceived by the workmen & all, that she was sufficiente, & they might proceede without either fear or danger.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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She was hear thorowly searcht from steme to steme, some leaks were found & mended, and now it was conceived by the workmen & all, that she was sufficiente, & they might proceede without either fear or danger.
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“Óber formal unentscheidbare S.tze der Principia mathematica und verwandter S.steme I,” in Collected Works (S. Feferman, ed.), vol. I, Oxford University Press and Clarendon Press, New York, NY and Oxford, UK, 1986, pp. 144 “ 195.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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