Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, same as
stipule .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A stipule.
- noun (Zoöl.) A newly sprouted feather.
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- noun botany A
stipule . - noun zoology A newly
sprouted feather .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have not allowed the word yet, and am doubtful of allowing it, because it entirely confuses the student's sense of the Latin 'stipula' (see above, vol. i., chap. viii., § 27) doubly and trebly important in its connection with
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Thus from one standpoint it has been contended that the explanations historians actu - ally provide simply do not measure up to the stipula - tions embodied in the proposed model: the average historian would be hard put to cite the universal hy - potheses upon which the meaning and validity of his causal propositions allegedly depend.
CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968
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Refining on the more delicate sound of stipes, the Latins got 'stipula,' the thin stem of straw: which rustles and ripples daintily in verse, associated with spica and spiculum, used of the sharp pointed ear of corn, and its fine processes of fairy shafts.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Mesopotamia; "Cum jam stipula flaveate turgerent;" a circumstance, which, in the latitude of Aleppo, would naturally refer us to the month of April or May.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Riassunto: DETASAD stipula un contratto con SES NEW SKIES per la capacità del satellite NSS-12 nella regione mediorientale Riassunto: Satconsult, Ltd. sottoscrive un contratto pluriennale con O3b Networks, Ltd.
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He stressed that the cooperation is commercially-based as stipula ted by the GGC agreement.
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• Though, from their intruisic interest, notwithstanding the general outcry against the capitulation of Madrid, the capitula - tion of that capital was not deemed necessary to be introduced to these pages, it may not be improper to shew that the stipula - tions were not nr. ore extraordinary in point of favour thaii those even of the battle of Coranna.
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The Treaty itself, by its stipula - tions for the posts, for indemnity, and for a due observance of ourneutral right!!, has justly raised the charaeter of the nation.
The Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States 1789
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(solemnia) on the conclusion of a contractsuch as shaking hands or breaking a straw (stipula) laid hold of by two persons — and all the various modes of confirming the declarations on either side, prove in fact the embarrassment of the contracting parties as to how and in what way they may represent declarations, which are always successive, as existing simultaneously at the same moment; and these forms fail to do this.
The Science of Right 1790
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1 The corn was ripe when Sapor invaded Mesopotamia; “Cum jam stipula flaveate turgerent;” a circumstance, which, in the latitude of Aleppo, would naturally refer us to the month of April or May.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
fbharjo commented on the word stipula
before stipulate - elementary featherhood
August 25, 2009