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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The nobles or magnates of a country.
  • [capitalized] [NL.] In Sundevall's system, an order of birds: same as the Proceri of Illiger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of large birds; the Ratitæ; -- called also Proceri.

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Examples

  • Audiit, in giro (Audit ingyre) sedis/Quid psallant cum citharoedis/Quater seni proceres:

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Inter proceres Thebanos numeratus, lectum habuit genus, frequens famulitium, domus amplas, &c. Apuleius Florid. l.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Animum diuinis exercendo studijs, noctes trahebat insomnes, et qu鎠ita scribendi diuerticula per otium frequentabat: Imperium oratione, ac Sanctis operationibus continendum ratus, Egregius Christian� disciplin� pr鎐o, filios ac proceres docuit, pietatem diuitijs omnibus, atque ade� ipsi anteferre totius mundi Monarchi�.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Lancastri� & fer� proceres omnes, quos comitabantur vel sequebantur poene mille currus, habuitque apud Sanwicam instructas optime vndecies centum naues, & cum hoc apparatu ad humiliandum

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Is siquidem, et dum in aula esset, nullo non contumeliae genere in proceres et gynaeceum etiam aulicum usus fuerat, fiducia pugnacitatis qua se terribilem cunctis reddiderat; sed etiam postquam se ad comitatum Andini receperat, dum Andegavi arcem toto illo tractu munitissimam et urbi populosae impositam teneret, oppidanis et toti provinciae gravis ob crebras exactiones, quas privata auctoritate, non consulto plerumque Andino ipso, faciebat, summum omnium odium in se concitaverat.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • The legate replied with the same arguments he had used the day before, adding that it ill became the Londoners who were regarded as nobles (_quasi proceres_) in the land to foster those who had basely deserted their king on the field of battle, and who only curried favour with the citizens in order to fleece them of their money.

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • Fit vasta Troia, scindunt proceres Pergamum. scivi ego iam dudum fore me exitio Pergamo. edepol qui me esse dicat cruciatu malo dignum, ne ego cum illo pignus haud ausim dare; tantas turbellas facio. sed crepuit foris: ecfertur praeda ex Troia. taceam nunciam.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • ‘Gradiuum, nostri comites, arcete parumper, 195 ut soli uacet aula mihi. procul igneus horror thoracum, gladiosque tegat uagina minacis. stent bellatrices aquilae saeuique dracones; fas sit castra meis hodie succumbere signis. tibia pro lituis et pro clangore tubarum200 molle lyrae festumque canant. epulentur ad ipsas excubias; mediis spirent crateres in armis. laxet terribilis maiestas regia fastus et sociam plebem non indignata potestas confundat turbae proceres. soluantur habenis205 gaudia nec leges pudeat ridere seueras.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Aemiliaeque domus proceres, clarique Metelli, et Cato fortunae uictor, matrisque sub armis miles Agrippa suae; Venerisque ab origine proles

    The Milky Way 1912

  • Multi vero Angli ceperunt uxores suas de sanguine et genere Anglorum Germaniæ, et quidam Angli ceperunt uxores suas de sanguine et genere Scotorum; proceres vero Scotorum, et Scoti fere omnes ceperunt uxores suas de optimo genere et sanguine Anglorum Germaniæ, et itu fuerunt tunc temporis per universum regnum Britanniæ duo in carne una ....

    Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

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