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Typis exscriptorum ex Libraria quadam supellectile, Norimbergæ collecta et observata, Millenarius

—Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

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Pertaining to household furniture; hence, ornamental. [Rare.] The heart of the Jews is empty of faith, … and garnished with a few broken traditions and ceremonies: supellectile complements instead of substantial graces. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 37.
An article of household furniture; hence, an ornament. [Rare.] The heart, then, being so accepted a vessel, keep it at home; having but one so precious supellectile or moveable, part not with it upon any terms. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 259.

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Imo ne pugnare quidem, sed auro et cuncta supellectile vitam redimere. " — A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
Typis exscriptorum ex Libraria quadam supellectile, Norimbergæ collecta et observata, Millenarius — Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
At times the river would rise in one of its periodical furies, and sweep away a pier or two with the superincumbent houses; at others the wooden supporters of the structure would catch fire by some untoward event, and the inhabitants had the choice of being fried or drowned, along with their penates and their supellectile property. — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
RAWLINSONUS; cujus peritiam in supellectile libraria, animique magnitudinem, nemo fere hominum eruditorum unquam attigit, quod tamen vix agnoscet seculum ingratum. — Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

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from Latin supellex (supellectil-), household utensils.

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