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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An old game at dice played by five or six persons, in which the two principal throws were nine and five.

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  • “ALLEN: Because in ancient Rome, when an emperor would die or when a major public figure, a general who had been -- you know, had accomplished -- had won great battles for the people of Rome, there was a customary nine-day period of mourning, the so-called novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005

  • “After that, there will be a period of nine days of mourning known as novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005

  • “The day after the pope's death marks the start of nine days of mourning, known as novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005

  • “We enter now into this period of mourning, these nine days of mourning called the novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005

  • “What will happen, as Delia said earlier, we're in a ritual period called the novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005

  • “DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN ANALYST: Well, you're right, Christiane, we enter now into this period of mourning, these nine days of mourning called the novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005

  • “As an example, Latin novem, Greek ennea and Sanskrit navá all mean 'nine' and these three languages are known to be related to each other.”

    Archive 2007-02-01

  • “Nobody is going to break into the car to get a little ortho novem (ph).”

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2007

  • “Then during the next several days, of course, the novem dialis, the nine days of mourning, are still going on.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005

  • “And yet he's going to be leading some of the main masses starting this novem dialis.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005

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