Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tame; gentle; habitually mild or forbearing; not wild or ferocious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Tame; gentle; kind.
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- adjective obsolete
tame ;gentle ;kind
Etymologies
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Examples
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Obloquutus est, probrumque tibi intulit quispiam, sive vera is dixerit, sive falsa, maximam tibi coronam texueris si mansuete convitium tuleris.
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Tunc respondit satis mansuete, quod bene faciebam ex quo eram monachus: sic seruarem votum meum, et non indigebat rebus nostris; sed magis daret nobis de suis, si indigeremus: et fecit nos sedere et bibere de lacte suo.
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Tunc respondit satis mansuete, quod bene faciebam ex quo eram monachus: sic seruarem votum meum, et non indigebat rebus nostris; sed magis daret nobis de suis, si indigeremus: et fecit nos sedere et bibere de lacte suo.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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She went in some time after, taking no notice of him, and he came limping up, and laid his great jaws in her lap; from that moment they were “chief,” as she said, James finding him mansuete and civil when he returned.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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[* Tropa de rescate; from rescatar, to redeem.] [* “I Guipunavi avventizj abitatori dell’ Alto Orinoco, recavan de’ danni incredibili alle vicine mansuete nazioni; altre mangiondone, altre conducendone schiave ne’ Portoghesi dominj.”
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Alto Orinoco, recavan de 'danni incredibili alle vicine mansuete nazioni; altre mangiondone, altre conducendone schiave ne' Portoghesi dominj. "
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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