juvenal

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Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier Most brisky juvenal, and eke most lovely Jew As true as truest horse, that would never tire I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb QUINCE.

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  1. A youth; a young man; a juvenile. I will … send you back again to your master, for a jewel; the Juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2, 22.

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  • The acting, or lack of acting skills, made the movie seem more juvenal and more like a bad soap opera than the witty and intense love story its supposed to be. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • My juvenal, being beyond measure appalled at his own unexpected and unmerited success in this strange encounter, takes the flight and leaves me there, and I fall into a dead swoon for the lack of the blood I had lost so foolishly--and when I awake, as from a sound sleep, I find myself lying, an it like you, wrapt up in my cloak at the foot of one of the birch-trees which stand together in a clump near to this place. —  The Monastery
  • Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier Most brisky juvenal, and eke most lovely Jew As true as truest horse, that would never tire I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb QUINCE. —  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum. —  Second Treatise of Government
  • I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. [ —  Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
 

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  1. from Latin juvenalis, youthful, from juvenis, youthful, a youth: see juvenile.
 

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