Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to tinge; tinting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having the power to tinge.
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- adjective Having the power to
tinge .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in another way that is con - tingent which is indefinite, and which can subsist thus, and not thus; such as for an animal to walk,, or while it is walking, for an earthquake
Works Aristotle, Thomas Taylor 1812
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In honor of all that is sacred about people and the way that nature has worked up until now, I’m going to be marching on April 14, in the DC “Jew-tingent,†side-by-side with my neigbhors.
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Ramos said that it was unlikely that South Africa would seek to benefit from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new con - tingent credit line (CCL) program.
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According to that theory the relationship of body to soul is temporary and con - tingent.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968
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The crucial distinction then is not that between con - tingent and necessary truths, but between reasoned and self-evident truths.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968
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According to that theory the relationship of body to soul is temporary and con - tingent.
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There is also a similar opposition to the being con - tingent to no individual.
Works Aristotle, Thomas Taylor 1812
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FEARNE's life-time, on his defcription of the feveral forts of Con - tingent Remainders; and the Author has
Tracts on I. The Definition and Nature of Cross Remainder, II. Fines and Recoveries by Tenant in ... 1797
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•CRsed by lease for twenty-one years of lauds In D. devises ddl his lands m D. whereof he is seised, possessed or any ways inte - rested in, to A. for life, remainder to B. in taiU re - mainder to C. for life, with power to make a jointure, remainder to trustees to preserve con - tingent re - mamders, &c.
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K.B. ration of the term» to the taruftccs named, to prcfervc con - tingent remainders during life.
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: From Easter Term 12 Geo. 3. to ... 1790
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