Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrust in or introduce by indirect means; insinuate.
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Examples
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Beneath is written the appropriate legend, "Berger à Bergere pr [= o] ptem [= e] t se ingere."
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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Sed fieri etiam potefi:, vtinhb verbis iateat alia Varronis annotatio, vbi dixerit offi-ingere terram dici etiam itcrare» Feftua ofiringi terram ait, cum iterum tranfuerfo fulco aratur.
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
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D. ni fcquitur, pugnos in ventrem ingere: 95. y el oculum exfculpe.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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wv: ingere What happens when I get to enthusiastic with the wife's lingerie!
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| oflic, Tunc uno eodemque cempore dux dtverfz rerum imagines fefb oculis per toium Imperium Romanuro ingere -
Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692
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