Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, folded together, as the opposite leaflets of a pinnate leaf applied each to the other, face to face.
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Lucretius, the apostle of the epicurean philosophy in Rome, develops the theme that the reason why people commit all kinds of iniquities and crimes during their lives is due to the fear of death (De Rerum Natura 3. 59-73): denique avarities et honorum caeca cupido, quae miseros homines cogunt transcendere fines iuris et inter dum socios scelerum atque ministros noctes atque dies niti praestante labore ad summas emergere opes, haec vulnera vitae non minimam partem mortis formidine aluntur. turpis enim ferme contemptus et acris egestas semota ab dulci vita stabilique videtur et quasi iam leti portas cunctarier ante; unde homines dum se falso terrore coacti effugisse volunt longe longeque remosse, sanguine civili rem conflant divitiasque conduplicant avidi, caedem caede accumulantes, crudeles gaudent in tristi funere fratris et consanguineum mensas odere timentque.
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