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  • noun a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness

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Examples

  • In Micro. succos, sine quibus animal sustentari non potest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Omne purgans medicamentum, corpori purgato contrarium, &c. succos et spiritus abducit, substantiam corporis aufert.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aviva · January 1st, 2004 at 12:20 pm hate to break it to you bnut jewsus was not born on the 24th ohr lichaof daled more around succos time… so the 1st has nothing to do with the bris of the mamzer

    New Age New Year | Jewschool 2003

  • If you insist upon it, I will send the paper: I have told you what I think, and will therefore say no more on that head; but I will transcribe a passage which I found t'other day in Petronius, and thought not unapplicable to you: "Omnium herbarum succos Democritus expressit; et ne lapidum virgultorumque vis lateret, aetatem inter experimenta consumpsit."

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • Theres not enough liquor in this town if we had a game like that … especially with the drinking tax … I cant afford that! said … if there are players on the succos who need the kind of asskicking that dougie could give,

    The Burgh Blog 2008

  • Theres not enough liquor in this town if we had a game like that … especially with the drinking tax … I cant afford that! said … if there are players on the succos who need the kind of asskicking that dougie could give,

    The Burgh Blog 2008

  • Mane patent gressus; hinc succos terra feraces Concipit, in multam pubentia gramina surgunt Luxuriem, tenerisque virescit circulus herbis.

    Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses 1812

  • Mane patent gressus; hinc succos terra feraces Concipit, in multam pubentia gramina surgunt Luxuriem, tenerisque virescit circulus herbis.

    Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses 1812

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