Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
comes .
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Examples
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Smaller units of the field army, stationed in Illyricum and Thrace, were commanded by officers called comites rei militaris.
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In plate 11, the artery, b*, is seen in company with the median nerve, which lies on its fore part, and with the veins called comites winding round it and passing with it and the nerve beneath the fascia which encases in a fold of itself all three structures in a common sheath.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The deep veins, called comites, lie in close connexion with the radial and ulnar arteries.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Seneca, [87] all agree in making the scene take place on shipboard, and, if we except the "comites" of Aglaosthenes, in none of them is the god accompanied by a retinue of satyrs.
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In respect to civil suits, all the foreign jurists agree, that neither an embassador, nor any of his train or comites, can be prosecuted for any debt or contract in the courts of that kingdom wherein he is sent to reside.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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In respect to civil suits, all the foreign jurists agree, that neither an embassador, nor any of his train or comites, can be prosecuted for any debt or contract in the courts of that kingdom wherein he is sent to reside.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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Bel Air also learned how to defend itself, and its "comites de vigilance" led resistance against pre-Aristide military dictatorships.
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Bel Air also learned how to defend itself, and its "comites de vigilance" led resistance against pre-Aristide military dictatorships.
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In respect to civil suits, all the foreign jurists agree, that neither an embassador, nor any of his train or comites, can be prosecuted for any debt or contract in the courts of that kingdom wherein he is sent to reside.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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Dukes, in Latin, duces, being generals in war; counts, comites, such as bore the general company out of friendship, and were left to govern and defend places conquered and pacified; marquises, marchioness, were counts that governed the marches, or bounds of the Empire.
Leviathan 2007
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