Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A solid strengthening rod in the graptolites which originates in the wall of the sicula and extends through the nema into the rhabdosomes. It is characteristic of the Axonolipa, an order of the Graptoloidea.
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Examples
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E em noventa e nove virgula noventa e nove por centos das vezes com razão.
Leituras Artur 2006
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When used singly, the acutus, too, retained its shape fairly accurately and from its shape received the name virga (virgula).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Nam primum 1 apex fuit, seu virgula, nota [Greek: monados]. 2, est ipsum [beta] extremis suis truncatum. [gamma], si in sinistram partem inclinaveris & cauda mutilaveris & sinistrum cornu sinistrorsum flexeris, fiet 3.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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And hereof saith a noble versifier: Transit ad æthera, virgo puerpera, virgula Jesse, Non sine corpore, sed sine tempore, tendit adesse.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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[199] Quo signo tamquam censoria virgula usi sunt librarii, qua
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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* Quo signo tamquam censoria virgula usi sunt librarii, qua
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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Now all this group of golden-blossoming plants agree in general character of having a rich cluster of radical leaves, from which they throw up a single stalk bearing clustered blossoms; for which stalk, when entirely leafless, I intend always to keep the term 'virgula,' the {147} 'little rod' -- not painfully caring about it, but being able thus to define it with precision, if required.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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The hairs on the virgula are in this instance so minute, that even with a lens I cannot see them in the Danish plate: of which Fig. 3 is a rough translation into woodcut, to show the grace and mien of the little thing.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Quo signo tamquam censoria virgula usi sunt librarii, qua
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850
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Philofophical refemblance of the phenomena of the virgula diyina, and thole of magnetifm and eledricity,
The Monthly Review 1786
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