Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, the portion of a house appropriated especially to males, including dining-room, library, sitting-rooms, etc.
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Examples
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The young husband's house is, to be sure, too far off for our purpose, so we will suppose that the andronitis is his dwelling.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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The young husband's house is, to be sure, too far off for our purpose, so we will suppose that the andronitis is his dwelling.
An Egyptian Princess — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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The young husband's house is, to be sure, too far off for our purpose, so we will suppose that the andronitis is his dwelling.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The young husband's house is, to be sure, too far off for our purpose, so we will suppose that the andronitis is his dwelling.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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The young husband's house is, to be sure, too far off for our purpose, so we will suppose that the andronitis is his dwelling.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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Every able-bodied citizen of moderate means has this outfit hanging in his andronitis, and can don it at brief notice.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903
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Ho, slave! see that the door of the andronitis is hung with flowers, and tell your comrades to meet us with a shower of sweetmeats as we enter.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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The good old Knakias, our faithful slave, just reached the door as all the bolts gave way, and, rushing through the entrance-hall into the peristyle, the andronitis, and so on to us, crashing the door between, came a troop of soldiers.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867
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Ho, slave! see that the door of the andronitis is hung with flowers, and tell your comrades to meet us with a shower of sweetmeats as we enter.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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The good old Knakias, our faithful slave, just reached the door as all the bolts gave way, and, rushing through the entrance-hall into the peristyle, the andronitis, and so on to us, crashing the door between, came a troop of soldiers.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867
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