Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a woman; a wife.
- noun A legitimate son, in contradistinction to one born out of wedlock
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman.
- noun Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.
- noun (Civ. Law) A woman; a wife; a mother.
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- noun law, historical
Lawful issue born inwedlock , in distinction from an elder brother born of the sameparents before theirmarriage . - noun obsolete A
woman ; awife ormother .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).
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And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).
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Signum magnum apparuit in coelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim.
Archive 2008-08-01 bls 2008
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Signum magnum apparuit in coelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim.
August 15: Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Part II bls 2008
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Magdalae sidus, mulier beata, te pio cultu veneramur omnes, quam sibi Christus sociavit arcti fœdere-amoris.
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Porta, &c., plura invenies, et multo his absurdiora, uti et in Rhasi, ne mulier virum admittat, et maritum solum diligat, &c. But these are most part
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But this nuptial love is a common passion, an honest, for men to love in the way of marriage; ut materia appetit formam, sic mulier virum.
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Pinaeus of Paris, Albertus Magnus de secret.mulier. cap.
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Yet, as some will, it is much more tolerable for an old man to marry a young woman (our ladies 'match they call it) for cras erit mulier, as he said in Tully.
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To what end are all those astrological questions, an sit virgo, an sit casta, an sit mulier? and such strange absurd trials in
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