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- adjective Pertaining to Pierre Corneille, or characteristic of his tragedies
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Examples
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Therefore it is unreasonable to divide laws according to the names of lawgivers, so that one be called the Cornelian law, another the Falcidian law, etc.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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“He said that the Sibylline Books had prophesied that Rome would be ruled by three members of the Cornelian family; that Cinna and Sulla had been the first two; and that he himself was the third and would soon be master of the city.”
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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It was the same story at the home of Caius Cethegus, that fiery young patrician who, like his kinsman Sura, was a member of the Cornelian clan.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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Gemstones ruled by Mars include red coral and Cornelian.
Gemology Red Coral: Wear Ring or Mala to Mitigate the Negative Effects of Mars in Your Horoscope 2009
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According to the Cornelian law also, enacted by Lucius Cornelius Sylla, to do so without authority from the people amounted to the same crime.
The Guantanamo Bay military prison meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions. Ann Althouse 2009
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Several cultivars of the Cornus mas, or Cornelian Cherry Dogwood exist, a native of southern Europe and parts of western Asia.
CHERRY DOGWOOD FOR WINTER CHARM Pooky 2008
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Several cultivars of the Cornus mas, or Cornelian Cherry Dogwood exist, a native of southern Europe and parts of western Asia.
Archive 2008-01-01 Pooky 2008
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Then I met a team, the driver of which stopped and said he was glad that I had not gone to Cornelian Bay, it was such a bad trail, and hoped I had enjoyed Tahoe.
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Cornelius Sylla was not the first whose body was burned in Rome, but the first of the Cornelian family; which being indifferently, not frequently used before; from that time spread, and became the prevalent practice.
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He stood, thanked Hortensius for his statement—“somewhat shorter than the speeches he is in the habit of making in these surroundings”—and demanded the maximum penalty under the Cornelian Law: a full loss of civil rights, in perpetuity, “so that never again can the shadow of Gaius Verres menace his victims or threaten the just administration of the Roman republic.”
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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