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  • noun Plural form of armamentarium.

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Examples

  • FRIST: Well, they are growing faster but I should also say as a doctor and as a surgeon, that there is nothing more important in our armamentaria today than prescription drugs.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2009 2009

  • The most pliant and portable of all forms of apparatus which constitute the hospital armamentaria, is the judgment; and this cannot give its approval to any plan of instrument which takes effect only at the expense of the patient.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Sheet-like fibrous membrane, resembling a flattened tendon, that serves as a fascia to bind muscles together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone. armamentaria

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Following, with unequal steps, such a guide, accompanied, likewise, by an excellent Canon of the Church [B] with all the "armamentaria coeli" at command against the powers of darkness, and a lay auxiliary [C], whose friendly converse would make the roughest journey appear smooth, I need scarcely say, I passed through

    Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

  • The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • I think that part of the explanation is that in such circumstances where we know that there is nothing to depend on, we have to summon our very best from a physiological, psychological armamentaria.

    EURweb 2010

  • "Everything we can add to the armamentaria would be useful," Weber said, noting that 59 percent of skin infections treated in emergency-room patients are MRSA.

    NewsObserver.com - Home 2009

  • The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of Gieza, the tremor of Cain,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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  • sorry, but I used AR twice. still this is the longest single word you can make using ONLY postal abbreviations. (even if there is a repeat)

    April 4, 2010

  • this word is the plural of armamentarium per Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (c)1993

    April 4, 2010