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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In ornithology, in Illiger's system of classification, a group of birds, the same as Ratitæ of Merrem, embracing the struthious birds, or ostriches and their allies: so called from their procere or tall stature.
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“Lam, leéliooem multam, ac per omne fcriptorum renus difTufain, et diligenciam tandem pertinacifii - nain | plurimis iam elogiis ab orbis literati proceri* nis merito decpratas.”
“Foemina geiierofa 21 circiter anaorunij tato ingcnio acri & vivido quam forma fpec - tabilis, hahitOs proceri & gracilis, tcmpc - riei ad fanguineam vergentis, firma fatis, ut plurimum, fanitate felix, quinto pod con« ceptionem circiter mcnfc, primo pracg - nans abortum fecit.”
Internet Archive: A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill
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